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title: I will show my wisdom by my discourse, and my moderation by my silen… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: I will show my wisdom by my discourse, and my moderation by my silence; I will instruct the modest with easy gentleness, and repress the ostentatious by seasonable superciliousness. Who acts: I, my. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Gelaleddin 
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora., sentence 8

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I will show my wisdom by my discourse, and my moderation by my silence; I will instruct the modest with easy gentleness, and repress the ostentatious by seasonable superciliousness.

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** show, instruct, repress, discourse, silence · **To what, where:** wisdom, modest, ostentatious

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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 (I, my), 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:pg62868:14:8
# text = I will show my wisdom by my discourse, and my moderation by my silence; I will instruct the modest with easy gentleness, and repress the ostentatious by seasonable superciliousness.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	discourse	discourse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	moderation	moderation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	instruct	instruct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	modest	modest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	gentleness	gentleness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	repress	repress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	ostentatious	ostentatious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obj	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	seasonable	seasonable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	superciliousness	superciliousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | future | I | my wisdom |  |  |  | by my discourse | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wisdom=Recipient |
| 2 | **instruct** *speech: other* | future | I | the modest |  |  |  | with easy gentleness | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent modest=Recipient |
| 3 | **repress** | infinitive | I *not said here* | the ostentatious |  |  |  | by seasonable superciliousness | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ostentatious=Patient by superciliousness=Location |
| 4 | **discourse** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom discourse «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **silence** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom silence «state 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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