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title: They left the gentleman therefore to his duty in the basket-maker’s… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: They left the gentleman therefore to his duty in the basket-maker’s service; and considered him, from that time forward, as one who was, and ought to be treated as inferior to their benefactor. Who acts: savages, basket maker. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymo
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Basket Maker., sentence 23

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They left the gentleman therefore to his duty in the basket-maker’s service; and considered him, from that time forward, as one who was, and ought to be treated as inferior to their benefactor.

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**Who acts:** savages, basket maker · **What happens:** leave, consider, be, treat, service · **To what, where:** gentleman, service, maker

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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 (savages, basket maker), 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:pg62868:11:23
# text = They left the gentleman therefore to his duty in the basket-maker’s service; and considered him, from that time forward, as one who was, and ought to be treated as inferior to their benefactor.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	maker	maker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	considered	consider	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	conj	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nmod	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
36	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	inferior	inferior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	obl	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	benefactor	benefactor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | savages *= savage* | the gentleman |  | the basket maker's service |  | to gentleman's duty; therefore *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent gentleman=Theme in service=Location |
| 2 | **consider** | past |  | maker |  |  | time | one *conj* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **treat** | ought · passive |  |  |  |  |  | as inferior to savages's benefactor | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: as inferior=Attribute |
| 5 | **service** |  | the basket maker |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: 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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