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title: “Where reflection is wanting,” replied the king, with a smile of dis… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: “Where reflection is wanting,” replied the king, with a smile of disdain, “men must find their defects in the pain of their sufferings. Who acts: reflection, king, men. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Basket Maker., with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Basket Maker., sentence 13

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“Where reflection is wanting,” replied the king, with a smile of disdain, “men must find their defects in the pain of their sufferings.

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**Who acts:** reflection, king, men · **What happens:** want, reply, find, smile, pain, suffer · **To what, where:** defects, pain, disdain, sufferings · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Basket Maker.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reflection, king, men), 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:pg62868:11:13
# text = “Where reflection is wanting,” replied the king, with a smile of disdain, “men must find their defects in the pain of their sufferings.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	advmod	_	_
3	reflection	reflection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	wanting	want	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	disdain	disdain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	defects	defect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	sufferings	suffering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** *in a quote* | present · progressive | reflection |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the king |  |  |  |  | a smile of disdain *parataxis* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **find** *in a quote* | must | men | men's defects |  | the pain of men's sufferings |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent defect=Topic |
| 4 | **smile** |  |  | disdain |  |  |  |  | nom smile «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **pain** *in a quote* |  |  | men's sufferings |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **suffer** *in a quote* |  | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | nom suffering «state intransitive»: poss=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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