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title: That they do not confer wisdom, thou mayest be convinced by consider… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: That they do not confer wisdom, thou mayest be convinced by considering at how dear a price they tempted thee, upon thy first entrance into the world, to purchase the empty sound of vulgar acclamation. Who acts: That, riches. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymou
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 36

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That they do not confer wisdom, thou mayest be convinced by considering at how dear a price they tempted thee, upon thy first entrance into the world, to purchase the empty sound of vulgar acclamation.

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**Who acts:** That, riches · **What happens:** not confer, convince, consider, tempt, purchase · **To what, where:** wisdom, thou, dear price, thee, empty sound

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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 (That, 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:pg62868:18:36
# text = That they do not confer wisdom, thou mayest be convinced by considering at how dear a price they tempted thee, upon thy first entrance into the world, to purchase the empty sound of vulgar acclamation.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj:outer	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	confer	confer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	mayest	may	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	convinced	convince	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
12	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	considering	consider	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
16	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	tempted	tempt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	26	amod	_	_
26	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	purchase	purchase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	vulgar	vulgar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	acclamation	acclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **confer** | present · do-support | That | wisdom |  |  |  | riches *= rich* *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **convince** | may · passive |  | thou |  |  |  | upon thy first entrance into the world | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **consider** | gerund |  |  |  | a dear price |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tempt** | past | riches *= rich* | thee |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient |
| 5 | **purchase** | to-infinitive | That *not said here* | the empty sound of vulgar acclamation |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Theme |

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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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