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title: “How long,” said he, with a deep sigh, “have I been labouring in vai… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: “How long,” said he, with a deep sigh, “have I been labouring in vain to amass wealth, which at last is useless. Who acts: Ortogrul, wealth. 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 
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Ortogrul of Basra., sentence 32

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“How long,” said he, with a deep sigh, “have I been labouring in vain to amass wealth, which at last is useless.

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**Who acts:** Ortogrul, wealth · **What happens:** say, labour, amass, be · **To what, where:** vain, wealth, last · **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, wealth), 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:pg62868:15:32
# text = “How long,” said he, with a deep sigh, “have I been labouring in vain to amass wealth, which at last is useless.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sigh	sigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux	_	_
18	labouring	labour	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	amass	amass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
23	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 |  |  |  |  | with a deep sigh; long *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with sigh=Manner |
| 2 | **labour** *in a quote* | present · perfect · progressive | Ortogrul |  |  | vain |  |  | vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **amass** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Ortogrul *not said here* | wealth |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | wealth |  |  | last |  | useless *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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