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title: If this Being possessed the goodness and the power with which flatte… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: If this Being possessed the goodness and the power with which flattering priests have invested him, he would doubtless be inclined and enabled to banish those evils which render the world a dungeon of distress, a vale of vanity and woe.—I will continue in it no longer!” Who acts: evils, I. A sentenc
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 7

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If this Being possessed the goodness and the power with which flattering priests have invested him, he would doubtless be inclined and enabled to banish those evils which render the world a dungeon of distress, a vale of vanity and woe.—I will continue in it no longer!”

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**Who acts:** evils, I · **What happens:** possess, invest, incline, enable, banish, render · **To what, where:** this, flattering priests, God, evils, world, woe

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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 (evils, I), 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:pg62868:19:7
# text = If this Being possessed the goodness and the power with which flattering priests have invested him, he would doubtless be inclined and enabled to banish those evils which render the world a dungeon of distress, a vale of vanity and woe.—I will continue in it no longer!”
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	possessed	possess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	goodness	goodness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
12	flattering	flattering	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	invested	invest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	doubtless	doubtless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	inclined	incline	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	enabled	enable	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	banish	banish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	evils	evil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	render	render	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	distress	distress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	vale	vale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	vanity	vanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	continue	continue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	parataxis	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obl	_	_
51	no	no	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	48	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	48	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **possess** *a condition, not said to happen* | gerund · passive |  | this |  |  |  | the goodness and the power *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **invest** | present · perfect · passive |  | flattering priests |  |  |  | with the power; God *obj* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset he=Goal |
| 3 | **incline** | would · passive |  | God |  |  |  |  | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **enable** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **banish** | to-infinitive |  | that evils and a vale of vanity and woe |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Theme |
| 6 | **render** | present | that evils and a vale of vanity and woe | the world |  |  |  | a dungeon of distress *obj* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent world=Recipient dungeon=Theme |
| 7 | **continue** | future | I |  |  | woe |  | long *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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