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title: The preference which fortune gives, is empty and imaginary; and I pe… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Basket Maker., sentence 28

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The preference which fortune gives, is empty and imaginary; and I perceive, too late, that only things of use are naturally honourable.

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**Who acts:** preference, I, things · **What happens:** give, be, perceive

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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 (preference, I, things), 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:pg62868:11:28
# text = The preference which fortune gives, is empty and imaginary; and I perceive, too late, that only things of use are naturally honourable.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	preference	preference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	imaginary	imaginary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	perceive	perceive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	honourable	honourable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | the preference |  |  |  |  | which fortune *nsubj* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | empty *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **perceive** | present | I |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | present | things of use |  |  |  |  | honourable, naturally *property* | tree rules |

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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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