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title: He was courteous and liberal; he gave all that approached him hopes… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: He was courteous and liberal; he gave all that approached him hopes of pleasing him, and all who should please him hopes of being rewarded. Who acts: Ortogrul, that, hopes, all. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Story of Ortogrul of Basra., with its depende
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Ortogrul of Basra., sentence 28

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He was courteous and liberal; he gave all that approached him hopes of pleasing him, and all who should please him hopes of being rewarded.

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**Who acts:** Ortogrul, that, hopes, all · **What happens:** be, give, approach, please, reward · **To what, where:** Ortogrul, hopes

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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, that, hopes, all), 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:pg62868:15:28
# text = He was courteous and liberal; he gave all that approached him hopes of pleasing him, and all who should please him hopes of being rewarded.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	courteous	courteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	liberal	liberal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	pleasing	please	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nsubj	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	rewarded	reward	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Ortogrul |  |  |  |  | courteous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Ortogrul *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | past | Ortogrul |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **approach** | past | that | Ortogrul |  |  |  | hopes *obj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **please** | gerund | hopes *not said here* | Ortogrul |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 6 | **please** | should | all | Ortogrul |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; hopes *obj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer hope=Result |
| 7 | **reward** | gerund · passive |  | hopes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient» |

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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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