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title: The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odours. Who acts: brightness, fragrant flower. 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 claus
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 4

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The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odours.

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**Who acts:** brightness, fragrant flower · **What happens:** waste, pass away · **To what, where:** fuel, own odours

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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 (brightness, fragrant flower), 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:pg62868:10:4
# text = The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odours.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	brightness	brightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	wasting	waste	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	odours	odour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **waste** | present · progressive | the brightness of the flame | brightness's fuel |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fuel=Patient |
| 2 | **pass away** | present · progressive | the fragrant flower |  |  | brightness's own odours |  | away *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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