The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 16

I must now return, and the only favor I ask is your leave to come occasionally to pay you my duty, and to inquire after your health.”

Who acts: I, only favor · What happens: return, ask, be, come, pay, inquire · To what, where: only favor, leave, you

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, only favor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 return	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 return	aux
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 return	advmod
4	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 leave	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 leave	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 favor	det
8	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 favor	amod
9	favor	favor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 leave	nsubj
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 ask	nsubj
11	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 favor	acl:relcl
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 leave	cop
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 leave	nmod:poss
14	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 return	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 come	mark
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 leave	acl
17	occasionally	occasionally	ADV	_	16 come	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 pay	mark
19	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 come	advcl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 pay	obj
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 duty	nmod:poss
22	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pay	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 inquire	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 inquire	cc
25	to	to	PART	_	26 inquire	mark
26	inquire	inquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 return	conj
27	after	after	ADP	_	29 health	case
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 health	nmod:poss
29	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 inquire	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 return	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 return	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	return	must	I			now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	present	I	the only favor not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent favor=Recipient
3	is a	present	the only favor	your leave			your nmod:poss	tree rules
4	come	to-infinitive	I not said here				occasionally property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	pay	to-infinitive	I not said here		you		my duty obj	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient duty=Asset
6	inquire speech: other	to-infinitive	I not said here			after your health		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 16

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 16