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title: He speaks, and his mandate is obeyed; he wishes, and his wish is gra… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: He speaks, and his mandate is obeyed; he wishes, and his wish is gratified; all whom he sees obey him; and all whom he hears flatter him. Who acts: master, all. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Story of Ortogrul of Basra., with its dependency tree and the 
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Ortogrul of Basra., sentence 9

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He speaks, and his mandate is obeyed; he wishes, and his wish is gratified; all whom he sees obey him; and all whom he hears flatter him.

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**Who acts:** master, all · **What happens:** speak, obey, wish, gratify, see, hear · **To what, where:** mandate, wish, all, master · **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 (master, 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:pg62868:15:9
# text = He speaks, and his mandate is obeyed; he wishes, and his wish is gratified; all whom he sees obey him; and all whom he hears flatter him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	speaks	speak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mandate	mandate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	obeyed	obey	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	wishes	wish	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	gratified	gratify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	obj	_	_
20	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	nsubj	_	_
28	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	obj	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
31	flatter	flat	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	xcomp	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | master |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **obey** | present · passive |  | master's mandate |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **wish** | present | master |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **gratify** | present · passive |  | master's wish |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 5 | **see** | present | master | all |  |  |  | whom *obj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **obey** | infinitive | all *not said here* | master |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 7 | **hear** | present | master |  |  |  |  | whom *obj*; flat *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
| 8 | **mandate** |  | master |  |  |  |  |  | nom mandate «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **wish** |  | master |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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