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title: I have long sought content, and have not found it; I will from this… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: I have long sought content, and have not found it; I will from this moment endeavour to be rich. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Story of Ortogrul of Basra., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Ortogrul of Basra., sentence 14

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I have long sought content, and have not found it; I will from this moment endeavour to be rich.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** seek, not find, be · **To what, where:** content

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Story of Ortogrul of Basra.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg62868:15:14
# text = I have long sought content, and have not found it; I will from this moment endeavour to be rich.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
17	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	endeavour	endeavour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | present · perfect | I | content |  |  |  | long *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent content=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **find** | present · perfect |  | content |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | 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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