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title: “Forbear afflicting yourself, my son,” said she; “if God has appoint… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “Forbear afflicting yourself, my son,” said she; “if God has appointed you riches, you will have them without any trouble. Who acts: queen, God, 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 pragmat
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 130

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“Forbear afflicting yourself, my son,” said she; “if God has appointed you riches, you will have them without any trouble.

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**Who acts:** queen, God, you · **What happens:** afflict, say, appoint, have · **To what, where:** yourself, you, riches · **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 (queen, God, 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:pg65965:16:131
# text = “Forbear afflicting yourself, my son,” said she; “if God has appointed you riches, you will have them without any trouble.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Forbear	forbear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	afflicting	afflict	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	ccomp	_	_
4	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	without	without	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **afflict** *in a quote* | gerund |  | yourself |  |  |  | my son *vocative*; Forbear *compound* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus yourself=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **appoint** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · perfect | God | you |  |  |  | riches *obj* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme rich=Attribute |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | future | you | riches *= rich* |  |  |  | without any trouble | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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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