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title: When he recovered from his surprise, he began to display his acquisi… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: When he recovered from his surprise, he began to display his acquisitions, and practised all the arts of narration and disquisition; but the poor have no leisure to be pleased with eloquence; they heard his arguments without reflection, and his pleasantries without a smile. Who acts: Gelaleddin, poo
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora., sentence 16

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When he recovered from his surprise, he began to display his acquisitions, and practised all the arts of narration and disquisition; but the poor have no leisure to be pleased with eloquence; they heard his arguments without reflection, and his pleasantries without a smile.

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**Who acts:** Gelaleddin, poor, arts · **What happens:** recover, begin, display, practise, have, be · **To what, where:** surprise, acquisitions, arts, leisure, arguments

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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 (Gelaleddin, poor, arts), 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:pg62868:14:16
# text = When he recovered from his surprise, he began to display his acquisitions, and practised all the arts of narration and disquisition; but the poor have no leisure to be pleased with eloquence; they heard his arguments without reflection, and his pleasantries without a smile.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	recovered	recover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	display	display	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	acquisitions	acquisition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	practised	practise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	arts	art	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	narration	narration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	disquisition	disquisition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	nsubj	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
30	leisure	leisure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
33	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	acl	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	eloquence	eloquence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	arguments	argument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
41	without	without	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	reflection	reflection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	pleasantries	pleasantry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
47	without	without	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recover** | past | Gelaleddin |  |  | Gelaleddin's surprise |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from surprise=Source |
| 2 | **begin** | past | Gelaleddin |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **display** | to-infinitive | Gelaleddin *not said here* | Gelaleddin's acquisitions |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acquisition=Theme |
| 4 | **practise** | past | Gelaleddin *not said here* | all arts of narration and disquisition |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | present | the poor | no leisure |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leisure=Patient |
| 6 | **is** | to-infinitive | the poor *not said here* | no leisure *not said here* |  |  |  | with eloquence; pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **hear** | past | arts *= art* | Gelaleddin's arguments |  |  |  | without reflection; Gelaleddin's pleasantries without a smile *obl* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer argument=Stimulus |
| 8 | **surprise** |  | Gelaleddin |  |  |  |  |  | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **acquire** |  | Gelaleddin |  |  |  |  |  | nom acquisition «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 10 | **argue** |  | Gelaleddin |  |  |  |  |  | nom argument «communication transitive»: 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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