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title: If not upon the foolish and the vicious, where shall the sun diffuse… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: If not upon the foolish and the vicious, where shall the sun diffuse his light, or the clouds distil the dew? Who acts: sun, clouds. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Carazan., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 18

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If not upon the foolish and the vicious, where shall the sun diffuse his light, or the clouds distil the dew?

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**Who acts:** sun, clouds · **What happens:** diffuse, distil, light · **To what, where:** light, dew

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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 (sun, clouds), 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:pg62868:17:18
# text = If not upon the foolish and the vicious, where shall the sun diffuse his light, or the clouds distil the dew?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
3	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	vicious	vicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	diffuse	diffuse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	distil	distil	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **diffuse** | shall | the sun | sun's light |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent light=Patient |
| 2 | **distil** | present | the clouds | the dew |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dew=Theme |
| 3 | **light** |  | sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: 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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