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title: Say that you have given up all hopes of seeing your husband again, a… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Say that you have given up all hopes of seeing your husband again, and that you are willing to marry him. Who acts: you, hopes. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 34

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Say that you have given up all hopes of seeing your husband again, and that you are willing to marry him.

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**Who acts:** you, hopes · **What happens:** say, give up, see, be, marry · **To what, where:** hopes, husband, Balna · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, hopes), 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:pg65965:4:34
# text = Say that you have given up all hopes of seeing your husband again, and that you are willing to marry him.
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	ccomp	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give up** | present · perfect | you | all hopes |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Source |
| 3 | **see** | gerund | all hopes *not said here* | your husband |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | willing *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **marry** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | Balna |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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