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title: Grant us our request, Unloose these chains, and live forever blest!” — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Grant us our request, Unloose these chains, and live forever blest!” Who acts: you, our. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 97

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Grant us our request, Unloose these chains, and live forever blest!”

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**Who acts:** you, our · **What happens:** grant, unloose, live, request · **To what, where:** request, us, chains

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, our), 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:pg65965:21:97
# text = Grant us our request, Unloose these chains, and live forever blest!”
1	Grant	grant	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Unloose	unloose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
12	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	blest	blest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grant** | imperative | you *not said here* | our request | us |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent we=Goal request=Theme |
| 2 | **unloose** | infinitive |  | this chains |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | present |  |  |  |  |  | blest *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **request** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | 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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