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title: The Dervise, after a short silence, advanced, and saluting him with… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: The Dervise, after a short silence, advanced, and saluting him with the calm dignity which independence confers upon humility, requested that he would reveal his purpose. Who acts: calm dignity, dervise. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almet.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almet., sentence 2

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The Dervise, after a short silence, advanced, and saluting him with the calm dignity which independence confers upon humility, requested that he would reveal his purpose.

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**Who acts:** calm dignity, dervise · **What happens:** salute, confer, request, reveal, purpose · **To what, where:** dervise, purpose

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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 (calm dignity, dervise), 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:pg62868:12:2
# text = The Dervise, after a short silence, advanced, and saluting him with the calm dignity which independence confers upon humility, requested that he would reveal his purpose.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Dervise	Dervise	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	advanced	advanced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	saluting	salute	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	dignity	dignity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	confers	confer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	humility	humility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	requested	request	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	reveal	reveal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **salute** | gerund |  | dervise |  |  |  | with the calm dignity | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 2 | **confer** | present | the calm dignity |  |  |  |  | upon humility; independence *nsubj* | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **request** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **reveal** | would | dervise | dervise's purpose |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purpose=Topic |
| 6 | **purpose** |  | dervise |  |  |  |  |  | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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