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title: “Ortogrul,” said the old man, “I know thy perplexity; listen to thy… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: “Ortogrul,” said the old man, “I know thy perplexity; listen to thy father, turn thine eye on the opposite mountain.” Who acts: Ortogrul. 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 cla
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Ortogrul of Basra., sentence 17

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“Ortogrul,” said the old man, “I know thy perplexity; listen to thy father, turn thine eye on the opposite mountain.”

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**Who acts:** Ortogrul · **What happens:** say, know, listen, turn · **To what, where:** perplexity, eye, opposite mountain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Ortogrul), 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:pg62868:15:17
# text = “Ortogrul,” said the old man, “I know thy perplexity; listen to thy father, turn thine eye on the opposite mountain.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ortogrul	Ortogrul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
13	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	perplexity	perplexity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ortogrul |  |  |  |  | the old man *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present | Ortogrul | thy perplexity |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer perplexity=Stimulus |
| 3 | **listen** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to thy father | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to father=Theme |
| 4 | **turn** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | thine eye |  | the opposite mountain |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=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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