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title: I recommend her to your care, and am persuaded that you, from inclin… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: I recommend her to your care, and am persuaded that you, from inclination, as well as my request, will not abandon her.” Who acts: I, your, my. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 57

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I recommend her to your care, and am persuaded that you, from inclination, as well as my request, will not abandon her.”

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**Who acts:** I, your, my · **What happens:** recommend, persuade, not abandon, care, request · **To what, where:** woman

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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, your, my), 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:pg65965:13:57
# text = I recommend her to your care, and am persuaded that you, from inclination, as well as my request, will not abandon her.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	recommend	recommend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	persuaded	persuade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
11	that	that	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	inclination	inclination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	21	cc	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	fixed	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	abandon	abandon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recommend** | present | I | woman |  |  |  | to your care | tree rules |
| 2 | **persuade** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | that you; inclination as my request *parataxis* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **not** **abandon** | future | I *not said here* | woman |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme she=Source |
| 4 | **care** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **request** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=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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