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title: His suit was generally rejected, and his presents refused; but a pri… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: His suit was generally rejected, and his presents refused; but a princess of Astracan once condescended to admit him to her presence. Who acts: presents. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almamoulin., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 17

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His suit was generally rejected, and his presents refused; but a princess of Astracan once condescended to admit him to her presence.

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**Who acts:** presents · **What happens:** reject, refuse, condescend, admit · **To what, where:** suit, princess, Almamoulin, presence

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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 (presents), 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:pg62868:18:17
# text = His suit was generally rejected, and his presents refused; but a princess of Astracan once condescended to admit him to her presence.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	suit	suit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	rejected	reject	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Astracan	Astracan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	18	advmod	_	_
18	condescended	condescend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	admit	admit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reject** | past · passive |  | Almamoulin's suit |  |  |  | generally *property* | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **refuse** | past | Almamoulin's presents |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **condescend** | participle · passive |  | a princess of Astracan |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **admit** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  | Almamoulin | princess's presence |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to presence=Recipient |

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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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