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title: The basket-maker, who saw himself undone, complained of the oppressi… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: The basket-maker, who saw himself undone, complained of the oppression in terms more suited to his sense of the injury, than the respect due to the rank of the offender; and the reward this imprudence procured him, was the additional injustice of blows and reproaches, and all kinds of insult and ind
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Basket Maker., sentence 7

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The basket-maker, who saw himself undone, complained of the oppression in terms more suited to his sense of the injury, than the respect due to the rank of the offender; and the reward this imprudence procured him, was the additional injustice of blows and reproaches, and all kinds of insult and indignity.

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**Who acts:** reward, maker · **What happens:** undo, complain, procure, be, sense · **To what, where:** basket maker, maker, additional injustice, injury

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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 (reward, 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:pg62868:11:7
# text = The basket-maker, who saw himself undone, complained of the oppression in terms more suited to his sense of the injury, than the respect due to the rank of the offender; and the reward this imprudence procured him, was the additional injustice of blows and reproaches, and all kinds of insult and indignity.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	maker	maker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	_
9	undone	undo	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	complained	complain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	oppression	oppression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
18	suited	suited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
29	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	32	case	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	offender	offender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
40	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	41	det	_	_
41	imprudence	imprudence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	procured	procure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
43	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	additional	additional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	injustice	injustice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nmod	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	reproaches	reproach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
55	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	56	det	_	_
56	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	insult	insult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	indignity	indignity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **undo** | past · passive |  | the basket maker |  |  |  | than the respect due the rank of the offender | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **complain** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | of the oppression in terms | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **procure** | past | the reward | maker |  |  |  | all kinds of insult and indignity *obl*; this imprudence *nsubj* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | the additional injustice |  |  |  | of blows and reproaches | tree rules |
| 5 | **sense** |  | maker | the injury |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=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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