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title: Grant us our request,-- Unloose these chains, and live for ever bles… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Grant us our request,-- Unloose these chains, and live for ever blest!" Who acts: you, our. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 104

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Grant us our request,-- Unloose these chains, and live for ever 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 «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. 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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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7128:21:104
# text = Grant us our request,-- Unloose these chains, and live for ever 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	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Unloose	unloose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	live	live	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
15	blest	blest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	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** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for blest | 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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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