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title: What words can paint the rapture of the starving merchant, when the… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: What words can paint the rapture of the starving merchant, when the captain offered to transport him to his native country, if he would reward him with half the jewels of his casket? Who acts: words, captain. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of B
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 15

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What words can paint the rapture of the starving merchant, when the captain offered to transport him to his native country, if he would reward him with half the jewels of his casket?

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**Who acts:** words, captain · **What happens:** paint, starve, offer, transport, reward · **To what, where:** rapture, captain, native country, Peace

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Bozaldab.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, captain), 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:pg62868:19:15
# text = What words can paint the rapture of the starving merchant, when the captain offered to transport him to his native country, if he would reward him with half the jewels of his casket?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	paint	paint	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rapture	rapture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	starving	starve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	transport	transport	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	reward	reward	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	32	det:predet	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	casket	casket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** | can | words | the rapture of the starving merchant |  |  |  | What *obj* | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent what=Patient rapture=Result |
| 2 | **starve** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **offer** | participle | the captain |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **transport** | to-infinitive | the captain *not said here* | captain |  | captain's native country |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to country=Destination |
| 5 | **reward** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | captain |  | Peace |  |  | with half jewels of Peace's casket | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with jewel=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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