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title: “Gracious Alla!—it is my son,” cried the Calif—“O let me hold him to… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: “Gracious Alla!—it is my son,” cried the Calif—“O let me hold him to my heart!” Who acts: Gracious Alla, son. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Bozaldab., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 11

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“Gracious Alla!—it is my son,” cried the Calif—“O let me hold him to my heart!”

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**Who acts:** Gracious Alla, son · **What happens:** be, cry, let, hold · **To what, where:** son, Calif · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Gracious Alla, son), 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:pg62868:20:11
# text = “Gracious Alla!—it is my son,” cried the Calif—“O let me hold him to my heart!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Alla	Alla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Calif	Calif	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
18	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Gracious Alla | my son |  |  |  | palace *nsubj*; my *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | my son | the Calif |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | my son *= son* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hold** *in a quote* | infinitive | my son *= son* *not said here* | Calif |  |  |  | to my heart | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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