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title: That they cannot bestow fortitude or magnanimity, that man may be ce… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: That they cannot bestow fortitude or magnanimity, that man may be certain, who stood trembling at Astracan before a being not naturally superior to himself. Who acts: That, man. 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 37

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That they cannot bestow fortitude or magnanimity, that man may be certain, who stood trembling at Astracan before a being not naturally superior to himself.

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**Who acts:** That, man · **What happens:** not bestow, be, stand, tremble, not be · **To what, where:** fortitude, Astracan, man

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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, man), 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:pg62868:18:37
# text = That they cannot bestow fortitude or magnanimity, that man may be certain, who stood trembling at Astracan before a being not naturally superior to himself.
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	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	bestow	bestow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	fortitude	fortitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	magnanimity	magnanimity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Astracan	Astracan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	cop	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	superior	superior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bestow** | can | That | fortitude or magnanimity |  |  |  | riches *= rich* *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | may | that man |  |  |  |  | certain *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | past |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **tremble** | gerund |  |  |  | Astracan |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at astracan=Location |
| 5 | **not** **is** | gerund |  |  | man |  |  | naturally, superior *property* | tree rules |

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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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