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title: That they rarely purchase friends, thou didst soon discover, when th… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: That they rarely purchase friends, thou didst soon discover, when thou wert left to stand thy trial uncountenanced and alone. Who acts: That, thou, thy. 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 39

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That they rarely purchase friends, thou didst soon discover, when thou wert left to stand thy trial uncountenanced and alone.

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**Who acts:** That, thou, thy · **What happens:** purchase, do, discover, leave, stand, try · **To what, where:** friends, trial

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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, thou, thy), 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:pg62868:18:39
# text = That they rarely purchase friends, thou didst soon discover, when thou wert left to stand thy trial uncountenanced and alone.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	purchase	purchase	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nsubj	_	_
8	didst	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	discover	discover	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
14	wert	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	uncountenanced	uncountenanced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **purchase** | present | That | friends |  |  |  | riches *= rich* *nsubj*; rarely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past | thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **discover** | present | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **leave** | participle | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **stand** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | thy trial |  |  |  | uncountenanced *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trial=Stimulus |
| 6 | **try** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom trial «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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