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title: Young man, said Omar, it is of little use to form plans of life. — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Young man, said Omar, it is of little use to form plans of life. Who acts: Young man, wisdom. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Omar’s Plan of Life., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 13

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Young man, said Omar, it is of little use to form plans of life.

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**Who acts:** Young man, wisdom · **What happens:** say, be, form, plan · **To what, where:** plans, life · **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 (Young man, wisdom), 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:pg62868:10:13
# text = Young man, said Omar, it is of little use to form plans of life.
1	Young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Omar	Omar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	form	form	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
14	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Young man |  |  |  |  | Omar *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | wisdom |  |  |  |  | of little use | tree rules |
| 3 | **form** | to-infinitive | Young man *not said here* | plans of life |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plan=Theme |
| 4 | **plan** |  |  | life |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition 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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