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title: He could not bear to delay the honours to which he was destined, and… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: He could not bear to delay the honours to which he was destined, and therefore hastened away, and in a short time entered the capital of Persia. Who acts: merit. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora., with its dependency tree
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora., sentence 12

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He could not bear to delay the honours to which he was destined, and therefore hastened away, and in a short time entered the capital of Persia.

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**Who acts:** merit · **What happens:** not bear, delay, destine, hasten away, enter · **To what, where:** honours, merit, capital

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merit), 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:pg62868:14:12
# text = He could not bear to delay the honours to which he was destined, and therefore hastened away, and in a short time entered the capital of Persia.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	delay	delay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	honours	honour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	destined	destine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
25	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Persia	Persia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bear** | could | merit |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **delay** | to-infinitive | merit *not said here* | the honours |  |  |  |  | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent honour=Source |
| 3 | **destine** | past · passive |  | merit |  |  |  | which *obl* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hasten away** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | away, therefore *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **enter** | past |  | the capital of Persia |  |  | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme capital=Destination |

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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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