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title: Yet think not riches useless; there are purposes to which a wise man… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet think not riches useless; there are purposes to which a wise man may be delighted to apply them: they may, by a rational distribution to those who want them, ease the pains of helpless disease, still the throbs of restless anxiety, relieve innocence from oppression, and raise imbecility to chear
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 40

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Yet think not riches useless; there are purposes to which a wise man may be delighted to apply them: they may, by a rational distribution to those who want them, ease the pains of helpless disease, still the throbs of restless anxiety, relieve innocence from oppression, and raise imbecility to chearfulness and vigour.

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**Who acts:** you, purposes, wise man, restless anxiety · **What happens:** not think, be, apply, want, ease, relieve · **To what, where:** riches, pains, innocence, imbecility, chearfulness, helpless disease

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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 (you, purposes, wise man, restless anxiety), 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:pg62868:18:40
# text = Yet think not riches useless; there are purposes to which a wise man may be delighted to apply them: they may, by a rational distribution to those who want them, ease the pains of helpless disease, still the throbs of restless anxiety, relieve innocence from oppression, and raise imbecility to chearfulness and vigour.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
4	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	purposes	purpose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	apply	apply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	rational	rational	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	distribution	distribution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	28	nmod	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	ease	ease	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	helpless	helpless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	still	still	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	throbs	throb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	restless	restless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	relieve	relieve	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
50	innocence	innocence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
51	from	from	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	oppression	oppression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	raise	raise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
56	imbecility	imbecility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	_
57	to	to	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	chearfulness	chearfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	vigour	vigour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | riches |  |  |  | by a rational distribution to those; useless *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot rich=Theme |
| 2 | **does** | present | purposes |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | may | a wise man |  |  |  |  | to purposes; delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **apply** | to-infinitive | a wise man *not said here* | riches *= rich* |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **want** | present |  | riches *= rich* |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |
| 6 | **ease** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the pains of helpless disease and the throbs of restless anxiety |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pain=Patient |
| 7 | **relieve** | infinitive | you *not said here* | innocence |  |  |  | from oppression | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer innocence=Source from oppression=Theme |
| 8 | **raise** | infinitive | you *not said here* | imbecility |  | chearfulness and vigour |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent imbecility=Theme to chearfulness=Destination |
| 9 | **pain** |  |  | helpless disease and the throbs of restless anxiety |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 10 | **throb** |  | restless anxiety |  |  |  |  |  | nom throb «state intransitive»: of=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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