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title: Having long looked with desire upon riches, thou hast taught thyself… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Having long looked with desire upon riches, thou hast taught thyself to think them more valuable than nature designed them, and to expect from them what, as experience has now taught thee, they cannot give. Who acts: thou, nature, riches. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 35

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Having long looked with desire upon riches, thou hast taught thyself to think them more valuable than nature designed them, and to expect from them what, as experience has now taught thee, they cannot give.

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**Who acts:** thou, nature, riches · **What happens:** have, look, teach, think, design, expect · **To what, where:** thou, riches, experience

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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 (thou, nature, riches), 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:pg62868:18:35
# text = Having long looked with desire upon riches, thou hast taught thyself to think them more valuable than nature designed them, and to expect from them what, as experience has now taught thee, they cannot give.
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
17	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
18	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	designed	design	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	expect	expect	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
34	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	parataxis	_	_
35	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
38	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
40	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with desire upon riches; long *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | thou |  |  |  | thyself *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | riches *= rich* |  |  |  | valuable *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |
| 5 | **design** | past | nature | riches *= rich* |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Result |
| 6 | **expect** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | from riches *= rich*; what *obj* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 7 | **teach** *speech: other* | present · perfect · passive |  | experience |  |  | now | thee *obj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient thou=Topic |
| 8 | **not** **give** | can | riches *= rich* |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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