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title: Tell me, said Caled, thou to whose voice nations have listened, and… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Tell me, said Caled, thou to whose voice nations have listened, and whose wisdom is known to the extremities of Asia, tell me how I may resemble Omar the prudent. Who acts: you, Caled, I. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Omar’s Plan of Life., with its depe
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 11

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Tell me, said Caled, thou to whose voice nations have listened, and whose wisdom is known to the extremities of Asia, tell me how I may resemble Omar the prudent.

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**Who acts:** you, Caled, I · **What happens:** tell, say, listen, know, resemble · **To what, where:** me, thou, wisdom, Omar · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Omar’s Plan of Life.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Caled, I), 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:pg62868:10:11
# text = Tell me, said Caled, thou to whose voice nations have listened, and whose wisdom is known to the extremities of Asia, tell me how I may resemble Omar the prudent.
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
5	Caled	Caled	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
8	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	listened	listen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	extremities	extremity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	resemble	resemble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
32	Omar	Omar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	prudent	prudent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Caled |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **listen** | present · perfect · passive |  | thou |  |  |  | voice nations *nsubj:pass* | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | present · passive |  | wisdom |  |  |  | to the extremities of Asia | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **resemble** | may | I | Omar |  |  |  | the prudent *obl:unmarked* | tree rules |

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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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