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title: Alnaschar, says the fable, was a very idle fellow, that never would… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Alnaschar, says the fable, was a very idle fellow, that never would set his hand to any business during his father’s life. Who acts: Alnaschar. 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 c
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 8

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Alnaschar, says the fable, was a very idle fellow, that never would set his hand to any business during his father’s life.

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**Who acts:** Alnaschar · **What happens:** say, be, not set · **To what, where:** fable, idle fellow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Alnaschar), 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:pg62868:16:8
# text = Alnaschar, says the fable, was a very idle fellow, that never would set his hand to any business during his father’s life.
1	Alnaschar	Alnaschar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	during	during	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	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* | present | Alnaschar | the fable |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fable=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a idle fellow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **set** | would |  | a idle fellow |  |  | during Alnaschar's father's life | to any business; Alnaschar's hand *obj* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent that=Theme hand=Destination |

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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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