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title: He showered down silver on the populace, and suffered their acclamat… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: He showered down silver on the populace, and suffered their acclamations to swell him with insolence. Who acts: Almamoulin, caparisons. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almamoulin., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 13

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He showered down silver on the populace, and suffered their acclamations to swell him with insolence.

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**Who acts:** Almamoulin, caparisons · **What happens:** shower down, suffer, swell, acclaim · **To what, where:** silver, populace, acclamations, Almamoulin

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almamoulin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Almamoulin, caparisons), 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:pg62868:18:13
# text = He showered down silver on the populace, and suffered their acclamations to swell him with insolence.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	showered	shower	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	populace	populace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	acclamations	acclamation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	swell	swell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	insolence	insolence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shower down** | past | Almamoulin | silver |  | the populace |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent silver=Theme on populace=Destination |
| 2 | **suffer** | past |  | caparisons's acclamations |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer acclamation=Stimulus |
| 3 | **swell** | to-infinitive |  | Almamoulin |  |  |  | with insolence | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient he=Extent |
| 4 | **acclaim** |  | caparisons *= caparison* |  |  |  |  |  | nom acclamation «communication 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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