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title: Carazan, the merchant of Bagdat, was eminent throughout all the East… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Carazan, the merchant of Bagdat, was eminent throughout all the East for his avarice and his wealth: his origin was obscure, as that of the spark, which by the collision of steel and adamant, is struck out of darkness; and the patient labour of persevering diligence alone had made him rich. Who acts
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 1

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Carazan, the merchant of Bagdat, was eminent throughout all the East for his avarice and his wealth: his origin was obscure, as that of the spark, which by the collision of steel and adamant, is struck out of darkness; and the patient labour of persevering diligence alone had made him rich.

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**Who acts:** Carazan, origin, patient labour, steel · **What happens:** be, strike out, persevere, make, collide · **To what, where:** darkness, diligence, patient labour

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Carazan.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carazan, origin, patient labour, steel), 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:pg62868:17:1
# text = Carazan, the merchant of Bagdat, was eminent throughout all the East for his avarice and his wealth: his origin was obscure, as that of the spark, which by the collision of steel and adamant, is struck out of darkness; and the patient labour of persevering diligence alone had made him rich.
1	Carazan	Carazan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Bagdat	Bagdat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	eminent	eminent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	avarice	avarice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	obscure	obscure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	spark	spark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	collision	collision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	adamant	adamant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
43	out	out	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	56	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	patient	patient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj:pass	_	_
51	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
52	persevering	persevere	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	50	acl	_	_
53	diligence	diligence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
54	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
55	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
56	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
57	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obj	_	_
58	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Carazan |  |  |  | throughout all East | for Carazan's avarice and Carazan's wealth; eminent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Carazan's origin |  |  |  |  | as that of the spark and the collision  the spark and the collision of steel and adamant of steel and adamant; obscure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **strike out** | present · passive | Carazan's origin *not said here* | darkness |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: darkness=Patient |
| 4 | **persevere** | gerund | the patient labour *not said here* | diligence |  |  |  | alone *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | past · perfect · passive |  | the patient labour |  |  |  | Carazan *obj*; rich *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Product |
| 6 | **collide** |  | steel |  |  |  |  |  | nom collision «event 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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