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title: “Cast away the dagger,” replied the heavenly messenger, “which thou… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: “Cast away the dagger,” replied the heavenly messenger, “which thou wast preparing to plunge into thine own heart. Who acts: heavenly messenger. 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 c
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 21

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“Cast away the dagger,” replied the heavenly messenger, “which thou wast preparing to plunge into thine own heart.

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**Who acts:** heavenly messenger · **What happens:** cast away, reply, prepare, plunge · **To what, where:** dagger, own heart · **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 (heavenly messenger), 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:pg62868:20:21
# text = “Cast away the dagger,” replied the heavenly messenger, “which thou wast preparing to plunge into thine own heart.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dagger	dagger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
16	wast	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	preparing	prepare	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	plunge	plunge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cast away** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the dagger |  |  |  | away *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dagger=Product |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the heavenly messenger |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **prepare** *in a quote* | gerund | the heavenly messenger *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **plunge** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the heavenly messenger *not said here* |  |  | thine own heart |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into heart=Initial\_Location |

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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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