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title: “I have been to blame, and wanted judgment to distinguish between ac… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: “I have been to blame, and wanted judgment to distinguish between accident and excellence. Who acts: savages, judgment. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Basket Maker., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Basket Maker., sentence 26

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“I have been to blame, and wanted judgment to distinguish between accident and excellence.

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**Who acts:** savages, judgment · **What happens:** be, want, distinguish · **To what, where:** judgment

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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, judgment), 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:pg62868:11:26
# text = “I have been to blame, and wanted judgment to distinguish between accident and excellence.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	blame	blame	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	between	between	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	excellence	excellence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present · perfect | savages *= savage* |  |  |  |  | blame *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** *in a quote* | past | savages *= savage* *not said here* | judgment |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **distinguish** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | judgment *not said here* |  |  |  |  | between accident and excellence | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent between accident=Theme |

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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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