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title: I will marry a wife beautiful as the Houries, and wise as Zobeide; w… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: I will marry a wife beautiful as the Houries, and wise as Zobeide; with her I will live twenty years within the suburbs of Bagdat, in every pleasure that wealth can purchase, and fancy can invent. Who acts: I, wealth, fancy. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 18

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I will marry a wife beautiful as the Houries, and wise as Zobeide; with her I will live twenty years within the suburbs of Bagdat, in every pleasure that wealth can purchase, and fancy can invent.

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**Who acts:** I, wealth, fancy · **What happens:** marry, live, purchase, invent · **To what, where:** wife, pleasure

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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 (I, wealth, fancy), 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:pg62868:10:18
# text = I will marry a wife beautiful as the Houries, and wise as Zobeide; with her I will live twenty years within the suburbs of Bagdat, in every pleasure that wealth can purchase, and fancy can invent.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Houries	houry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Zobeide	Zobeide	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
21	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	within	within	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	suburbs	suburb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Bagdat	Bagdat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	purchase	purchase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
39	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	invent	invent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | future | I | a wife |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient |
| 2 | **live** | future | I |  |  |  | year | within the suburbs of Bagdat; Zobeide *nmod:poss*; every pleasure *conj* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **purchase** | can | wealth | every pleasure *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pleasure=Theme |
| 4 | **invent** | can | fancy |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «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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