--- title: I regarded knowledge as the highest honour and the most engaging ple… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics description: I regarded knowledge as the highest honour and the most engaging pleasure; yet day stole upon day, and month glided after month, till I found that seven years of the first ten had vanished, and left nothing behind them. Who acts: I, day, seven years. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, day, seven years), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62868:10:24 # text = I regarded knowledge as the highest honour and the most engaging pleasure; yet day stole upon day, and month glided after month, till I found that seven years of the first ten had vanished, and left nothing behind them. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 regarded regard VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 knowledge knowledge NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 highest high ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 11 advmod _ _ 11 engaging engaging ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 stole steal VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 17 upon upon ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 glided glide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 23 after after ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 till till SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 32 of of SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 35 amod _ _ 35 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 vanished vanish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 31 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 41 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 40 obj _ _ 42 behind behind ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **regard** | past | I | knowledge | | | | as the highest honour and the engaging pleasure | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent knowledge=Theme as honour=Value | | 2 | **steal** | past | day | | | | day | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **glide** | participle | | | | | month | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **find** | past | I | | | | year | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **vanish** | past · perfect · passive | seven years *not said here* | the first ten | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **leave** | past | I *not said here* | nothing | | | | behind honour | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme behind they=Location | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/10/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/10/25/) - ↑ back to [Omar’s Plan of Life.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/10/)