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title: But at fifty no man easily finds a woman beautiful as the Houries, a… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: But at fifty no man easily finds a woman beautiful as the Houries, and wise as Zobeide. Who acts: man. 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 32

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But at fifty no man easily finds a woman beautiful as the Houries, and wise as Zobeide.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** find · **To what, where:** woman, fifty

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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 (man), 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:pg62868:10:32
# text = But at fifty no man easily finds a woman beautiful as the Houries, and wise as Zobeide.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Houries	houry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Zobeide	Zobeide	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | no man | a woman |  | fifty |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent woman=Theme at fifty=Asset |

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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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