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title: I must now return, and the only favor I ask is your leave to come oc… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: I must now return, and the only favor I ask is your leave to come occasionally to pay you my duty, and to inquire after your health.” Who acts: I, only favor. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 16

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I must now return, and the only favor I ask is your leave to come occasionally to pay you my duty, and to inquire after your health.”

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**Who acts:** I, only favor · **What happens:** return, ask, be, come, pay, inquire · **To what, where:** only favor, leave, you

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, only favor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:13:16
# text = I must now return, and the only favor I ask is your leave to come occasionally to pay you my duty, and to inquire after your health.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	favor	favor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	occasionally	occasionally	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	inquire	inquire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
27	after	after	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | must | I |  |  |  | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | I | the only favor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent favor=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the only favor | your leave |  |  |  | your *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | occasionally *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **pay** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  | you |  |  | my duty *obj* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient duty=Asset |
| 6 | **inquire** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  | after your health |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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