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title: In this forlorn condition, he had no other resource to keep himself… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: In this forlorn condition, he had no other resource to keep himself from starving than to wander up and down the country, imploring the assistance of well-disposed persons. Who acts: death. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Merchant and His Sons., with 
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Merchant and His Sons., sentence 12

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In this forlorn condition, he had no other resource to keep himself from starving than to wander up and down the country, imploring the assistance of well-disposed persons.

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**Who acts:** death · **What happens:** have, keep, starve, wander up, implore, dispose · **To what, where:** other resource, forlorn condition, death, assistance, disposed persons

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Merchant and His Sons.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (death), 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:pg62868:2:12
# text = In this forlorn condition, he had no other resource to keep himself from starving than to wander up and down the country, imploring the assistance of well-disposed persons.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	forlorn	forlorn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	resource	resource	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
13	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	starving	starve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
16	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	wander	wander	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	imploring	implore	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	disposed	dispose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	amod	_	_
32	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | death | no other resource |  | this forlorn condition |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resource=Patient |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | death *not said here* | death |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 3 | **starve** | gerund | death *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wander up** | to-infinitive | death *not said here* |  |  |  |  | the country *conj* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **implore** | gerund | death *not said here* | the assistance of disposed persons |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assistance=Recipient |
| 6 | **dispose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **assist** |  |  | disposed persons |  |  |  |  | nom assistance «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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