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title: It is a precept oftentimes inculcated, that we should not entertain… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: It is a precept oftentimes inculcated, that we should not entertain an hope of any thing in life which lies at a great distance from us. Who acts: It, we, thing. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Alnaschar., with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 1

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It is a precept oftentimes inculcated, that we should not entertain an hope of any thing in life which lies at a great distance from us.

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**Who acts:** It, we, thing · **What happens:** be, inculcate, not entertain, lie, hope · **To what, where:** precept oftentimes, hope

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Alnaschar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, we, thing), 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:pg62868:16:1
# text = It is a precept oftentimes inculcated, that we should not entertain an hope of any thing in life which lies at a great distance from us.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	precept	precept	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	oftentimes	oftentime	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	inculcated	inculcate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	entertain	entertain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a precept oftentimes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **inculcate** | participle |  | a precept oftentimes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **entertain** | should | we | a hope of any thing in life |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hope=Experiencer |
| 4 | **lie** | present | any thing in life |  |  |  |  | at a great distance from us | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at distance=Location |
| 5 | **hope** |  | any thing in life |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=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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