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title: The shortness and uncertainty of our time here, makes such a kind of… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: The shortness and uncertainty of our time here, makes such a kind of hope unreasonable and absurd. Who acts: shortness. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Alnaschar., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 2

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The shortness and uncertainty of our time here, makes such a kind of hope unreasonable and absurd.

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**Who acts:** shortness · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** kind

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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 (shortness), 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:pg62868:16:2
# text = The shortness and uncertainty of our time here, makes such a kind of hope unreasonable and absurd.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shortness	shortness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	uncertainty	uncertainty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	13	det:predet	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	unreasonable	unreasonable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	absurd	absurd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | the shortness and uncertainty of our time | such kind of hope |  |  |  | unreasonable *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset kind=Product |

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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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