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title: Surely, said he to himself, this palace is that seat of happiness wh… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Surely, said he to himself, this palace is that seat of happiness where pleasure succeeds to pleasure, and discontent and sorrow can have no admission. Who acts: Ortogrul, palace, pleasure, discontent. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Story of Ortogrul of 
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Ortogrul of Basra., sentence 5

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Surely, said he to himself, this palace is that seat of happiness where pleasure succeeds to pleasure, and discontent and sorrow can have no admission.

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**Who acts:** Ortogrul, palace, pleasure, discontent · **What happens:** say, be, succeed, pleasure, have · **To what, where:** Ortogrul, seat, admission · **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, palace, pleasure, discontent), 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:pg62868:15:5
# text = Surely, said he to himself, this palace is that seat of happiness where pleasure succeeds to pleasure, and discontent and sorrow can have no admission.
1	Surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
16	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	succeeds	succeed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	pleasure	pleasure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	discontent	discontent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	admission	admission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 |  | Ortogrul |  |  | surely *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | this palace | that seat |  |  |  | of happiness | tree rules |
| 3 | **succeed** | present | pleasure |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pleasure** | to-infinitive | pleasure *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | can | discontent and sorrow | no admission |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent admission=Patient |

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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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