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title: ORIENTAL TALES, FOR THE _ENTERTAINMENT OF YOUTH_: — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: ORIENTAL TALES, FOR THE _ENTERTAINMENT OF YOUTH_: A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Opening, sentence 2

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ORIENTAL TALES, FOR THE \_ENTERTAINMENT OF YOUTH\_:

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**What happens:** entertain · **To what, where:** ORIENTAL TALES, YOUTH

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg62868:1:2
# text = ORIENTAL TALES, FOR THE _ENTERTAINMENT OF YOUTH_:
1	ORIENTAL	oriental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	TALES	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	FOR	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	ENTERTAINMENT	entertainment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	YOUTH	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **entertain** |  |  | YOUTH |  |  |  |  | nom entertainment «act transitive»: of=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:** «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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