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title: I was heard with attention, I was consulted with confidence, and the… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: I was heard with attention, I was consulted with confidence, and the love of praise fastened on my heart. 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 28

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I was heard with attention, I was consulted with confidence, and the love of praise fastened on my heart.

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**What happens:** hear, consult, fasten, love · **To what, where:** I, praise

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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: 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:pg62868:10:28
# text = I was heard with attention, I was consulted with confidence, and the love of praise fastened on my heart.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	consulted	consult	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · passive |  | I |  |  |  | with attention; the love of praise *parataxis* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **consult** | past · passive |  | I |  |  |  | with confidence | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **fasten** | participle |  | praise *not said here* |  |  |  | on my heart | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on heart=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **love** |  |  | praise |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling 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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