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description: He then applied himself singly to his brothers and sisters, but found them all chained down by invariable attention to their own fortunes, and insensible of any other excellence than that which could bring some remedy for indigence. Who acts: Gelaleddin, sisters. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for t
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora., sentence 17

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He then applied himself singly to his brothers and sisters, but found them all chained down by invariable attention to their own fortunes, and insensible of any other excellence than that which could bring some remedy for indigence.

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**Who acts:** Gelaleddin, sisters · **What happens:** apply, find, chain down, bring · **To what, where:** Gelaleddin, sisters, remedy

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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, sisters), 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:pg62868:14:17
# text = He then applied himself singly to his brothers and sisters, but found them all chained down by invariable attention to their own fortunes, and insensible of any other excellence than that which could bring some remedy for indigence.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	applied	apply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	singly	singly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	nmod:unmarked	_	_
16	chained	chain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	invariable	invariable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	fortunes	fortune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	insensible	insensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
30	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	excellence	excellence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	than	than	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	obl	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
35	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	ccomp	_	_
37	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	38	det	_	_
38	remedy	remedy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	indigence	indigence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **apply** | past | Gelaleddin | Gelaleddin |  |  | then | to Gelaleddin's brothers and sisters; singly *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | Gelaleddin *not said here* | sisters *= sister* |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **chain down** | participle | sisters *= sister* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by invariable attention; to sisters's own fortunes | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to fortune=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **bring** | could |  | some remedy |  |  |  | for indigence; which *nsubj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent remedy=Theme |

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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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