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title: The sprightly were silenced, and went away to censure in some other… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: The sprightly were silenced, and went away to censure in some other place his arrogance and his pedantry; and the dull listened quietly for a while, and then wondered why any man should take pains to obtain so much knowledge which would never do him good. Who acts: dull, man. A sentence of «Oriental
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora., sentence 21

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The sprightly were silenced, and went away to censure in some other place his arrogance and his pedantry; and the dull listened quietly for a while, and then wondered why any man should take pains to obtain so much knowledge which would never do him good.

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**Who acts:** dull, man · **What happens:** silence, go away, censure, listen, wonder, take · **To what, where:** other place, pains, much knowledge · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (dull, man), 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:pg62868:14:21
# text = The sprightly were silenced, and went away to censure in some other place his arrogance and his pedantry; and the dull listened quietly for a while, and then wondered why any man should take pains to obtain so much knowledge which would never do him good.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	sprightly	sprightly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	silenced	silence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	censure	censure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	arrogance	arrogance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	pedantry	pedantry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	nsubj	_	_
24	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
25	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
32	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
33	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
34	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	det	_	_
35	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	ccomp	_	_
38	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	csubj	_	_
41	so	so	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
44	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	obj	_	_
45	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
47	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	acl:relcl	_	_
48	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **silence** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | sprightly *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient» |
| 2 | **go away** | past |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **censure** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | some other place |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **listen** | past | the dull |  |  |  | while | quietly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | the dull *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **take** | should | any man | pains |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme |
| 7 | **obtain** | to-infinitive |  | much knowledge |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset knowledge=Theme |
| 8 | **not** **do** | would |  | much knowledge |  |  |  | Gelaleddin *obj* | tree rules |

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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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