--- title: If those are not happy who possess, in proportion as those are wretc… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics description: If those are not happy who possess, in proportion as those are wretched who bestow, how vain a dream is the life of man! and if there is, indeed, such difference in the value of existence, how shall we acquit of partiality the hand by which this difference has been made?” Who acts: those, proportion --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/12/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Oriental tales, for the entertainment…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/) / [The Story of Almet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/12/) / 14 # Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almet., sentence 14 If those are not happy who possess, in proportion as those are wretched who bestow, how vain a dream is the life of man! and if there is, indeed, such difference in the value of existence, how shall we acquit of partiality the hand by which this difference has been made?” **Who acts:** those, proportion, dream, we, hand · **What happens:** not be, possess, be, bestow, acquit, make · **To what, where:** proportion, life, hand, difference, existence 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 (those, proportion, dream, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62868:12:14 # text = If those are not happy who possess, in proportion as those are wretched who bestow, how vain a dream is the life of man! and if there is, indeed, such difference in the value of existence, how shall we acquit of partiality the hand by which this difference has been made?” 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 possess possess VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 proportion proportion NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 11 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 14 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 wretched wretched ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 acl _ _ 15 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 bestow bestow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 18 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 19 vain vain ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 29 if if SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 31 expl _ _ 31 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 33 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 difference difference NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 value value NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 existence existence NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 46 advmod _ _ 44 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 45 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 acquit acquit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 conj _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 partiality partiality NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ _ 51 by by ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 57 obl _ _ 53 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 54 det _ _ 54 difference difference NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nsubj:pass _ _ 55 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 57 aux _ _ 56 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 57 aux:pass _ _ 57 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 50 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 58 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 59 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | those | | | | | proportion *conj*; such difference in the value of existence *conj*; happy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **possess** | present | | | | | | who *nsubj* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **is** | present | proportion | proportion *not said here* | | | | wretched *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **bestow** | present | | | | | | who *nsubj* | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | a dream | the life | | | | of man; vain *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | those *not said here* | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **acquit** | shall | we | the hand | | | | of partiality | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer hand=Source of partiality=Theme | | 8 | **make** | present · perfect · passive | the hand | this difference | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | | 9 | **value** | | | existence | | | | | nom value «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/12/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/12/15/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Almet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/12/)