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title: The nobles saw him with anger, the wise men of the state combined ag… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: The nobles saw him with anger, the wise men of the state combined against him, the leaders of armies threatened his destruction. Who acts: nobles, wise men, leaders, Almamoulin. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almamoulin., with its dependency
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 14

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The nobles saw him with anger, the wise men of the state combined against him, the leaders of armies threatened his destruction.

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**Who acts:** nobles, wise men, leaders, Almamoulin · **What happens:** see, combine, threaten, destroy · **To what, where:** Almamoulin, destruction

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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 (nobles, wise men, leaders, Almamoulin), 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:pg62868:18:14
# text = The nobles saw him with anger, the wise men of the state combined against him, the leaders of armies threatened his destruction.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nobles	noble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	combined	combine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	against	against	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	threatened	threaten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the nobles | Almamoulin |  |  |  | with anger | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **combine** | past | the wise men of the state |  |  |  |  | against Almamoulin | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **threaten** | past | the leaders of armies | Almamoulin's destruction |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus destruction=Experiencer |
| 4 | **destroy** |  | Almamoulin |  |  |  |  |  | nom destruction «act 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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