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title: You have believed me, and now I want you to know that I have not imp… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: You have believed me, and now I want you to know that I have not imposed on you this long journey with any other design than to try you. Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 115

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You have believed me, and now I want you to know that I have not imposed on you this long journey with any other design than to try you.

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** believe, want, know, not impose, try · **To what, where:** You, long journey · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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:pg65965:16:116
# text = You have believed me, and now I want you to know that I have not imposed on you this long journey with any other design than to try you.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	believed	believe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	imposed	impose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	design	design	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | present · perfect · passive |  | You |  |  |  | me *obj* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme i=Eventuality |
| 2 | **want** | present | I | you |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **impose** | present · perfect | I | this long journey |  |  |  | on you; with any other design | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Theme |
| 5 | **try** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality |

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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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