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title: Do those on whom hereditary diamonds sparkle with unregarded lustre,… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Do those on whom hereditary diamonds sparkle with unregarded lustre, gain from the possession what is lost by the wretch who seeks them in the mine; who lives excluded from the common bounties of nature; to whom even the vicissitude of day and night is not known; who sighs in perpetual darkness, and
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almet., sentence 13

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Do those on whom hereditary diamonds sparkle with unregarded lustre, gain from the possession what is lost by the wretch who seeks them in the mine; who lives excluded from the common bounties of nature; to whom even the vicissitude of day and night is not known; who sighs in perpetual darkness, and whose life is one alternative of insensibility and labour?

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**Who acts:** you, hereditary diamonds, wretch, possession, life · **What happens:** do, sparkle, gain, lose, seek, exclude · **To what, where:** those, possession, possessions, mine, common bounties, vicissitude

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almet.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, hereditary diamonds, wretch, possession), 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:pg62868:12:13
# text = Do those on whom hereditary diamonds sparkle with unregarded lustre, gain from the possession what is lost by the wretch who seeks them in the mine; who lives excluded from the common bounties of nature; to whom even the vicissitude of day and night is not known; who sighs in perpetual darkness, and whose life is one alternative of insensibility and labour?
1	Do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	1	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	1	obl	_	_
5	hereditary	hereditary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sparkle	sparkle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	unregarded	unregarded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	lustre	lustre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	gain	gain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	wretch	wretch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	seeks	seek	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	mine	mine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	excluded	exclude	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	bounties	bounty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	parataxis	_	_
41	even	even	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	vicissitude	vicissitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
48	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux:pass	_	_
49	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
50	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	53	nsubj	_	_
53	sighs	sigh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	perpetual	perpetual	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
56	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
59	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	60	nmod:poss	_	_
60	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nsubj	_	_
61	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	63	cop	_	_
62	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	63	nummod	_	_
63	alternative	alternative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
64	of	of	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	insensibility	insensibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nmod	_	_
66	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	67	cc	_	_
67	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | imperative | you *not said here* | those |  |  |  | whom *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 2 | **sparkle** | present | hereditary diamonds |  |  |  |  | with unregarded lustre | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with lustre=Theme |
| 3 | **gain** | infinitive |  |  |  | the possession and one alternative |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **lose** | present · passive | the wretch | the possession and one alternative |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |
| 5 | **seek** | present | the wretch | possessions *= possession* |  | the mine |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in mine=Location |
| 6 | **exclude** | present · passive |  | the possession and one alternative |  | the common bounties of nature |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from bounty=Eventuality |
| 7 | **not** **know** | present · passive |  | the vicissitude of day and night |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 8 | **sigh** | present | the possession and one alternative |  |  |  |  | in perpetual darkness | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in darkness=Theme |
| 9 | **is a** | present | one alternative's life | one alternative |  |  |  | of insensibility and labour | 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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