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title: Thou hast sought felicity in temporal things; and, therefore, thou a… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou hast sought felicity in temporal things; and, therefore, thou art disappointed. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almet, Concluded., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almet, Concluded., sentence 16

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Thou hast sought felicity in temporal things; and, therefore, thou art disappointed.

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**What happens:** seek · **To what, where:** Thou, temporal things

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almet, Concluded.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg62868:13:16
# text = Thou hast sought felicity in temporal things; and, therefore, thou art disappointed.
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	felicity	felicity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	temporal	temporal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
14	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	disappointed	disappointed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | present · perfect · passive |  | Thou |  | temporal things |  | felicity *xcomp* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in thing=Location |

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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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