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title: Let no man hereafter wish to be rich, who is already too wise to be… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Let no man hereafter wish to be rich, who is already too wise to be flattered.” Who acts: you, man, hereafter wish. 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 33

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Let no man hereafter wish to be rich, who is already too wise to be flattered.”

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**Who acts:** you, man, hereafter wish · **What happens:** let, wish, be, flatter

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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 (you, man, hereafter wish), 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:pg62868:15:33
# text = Let no man hereafter wish to be rich, who is already too wise to be flattered.”
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	hereafter	hereafter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	already	already	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	flattered	flatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wish** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | no hereafter wish |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **flatter** | to-infinitive · passive | no hereafter wish *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

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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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