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title: The father was no sooner dead than the elder began to shew his ill-w… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: The father was no sooner dead than the elder began to shew his ill-will to his brother. Who acts: father, elder. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Merchant and His Sons., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Merchant and His Sons., sentence 3

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The father was no sooner dead than the elder began to shew his ill-will to his brother.

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**Who acts:** father, elder · **What happens:** be, begin, shew

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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 (father, elder), 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:pg62868:2:3
# text = The father was no sooner dead than the elder began to shew his ill-will to his brother.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	no	no	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	shew	shew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the father |  |  |  |  | dead, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the elder |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **shew** | to-infinitive | the elder *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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