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title: Ortogrul heard his flatters without delight, because he found himsel… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Ortogrul heard his flatters without delight, because he found himself unable to believe them. 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 clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Ortogrul of Basra., sentence 30

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Ortogrul heard his flatters without delight, because he found himself unable to believe them.

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**Who acts:** Ortogrul · **What happens:** hear, find, believe · **To what, where:** flatters, Ortogrul

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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:pg62868:15:30
# text = Ortogrul heard his flatters without delight, because he found himself unable to believe them.
1	Ortogrul	Ortogrul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	flatters	flatter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	without	without	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Ortogrul | Ortogrul's flatters |  |  |  | without delight | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer flatter=Stimulus |
| 2 | **find** | past | Ortogrul | Ortogrul |  |  |  | unable *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 3 | **believe** | to-infinitive | Ortogrul *not said here* | flatters *= flatter* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |

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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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