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title: Remember, that perfect happiness cannot be conferred on a creature;… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Remember, that perfect happiness cannot be conferred on a creature; for perfect happiness is an attribute as incommunicable as perfect power and eternity.” Who acts: you. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Bozaldab., with its dependency tree and
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 26

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Remember, that perfect happiness cannot be conferred on a creature; for perfect happiness is an attribute as incommunicable as perfect power and eternity.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** remember, not confer, be · **To what, where:** perfect happiness, creature, attribute · **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 (you), 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:pg62868:20:26
# text = Remember, that perfect happiness cannot be conferred on a creature; for perfect happiness is an attribute as incommunicable as perfect power and eternity.”
1	Remember	remember	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	conferred	confer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	ccomp	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	attribute	attribute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	incommunicable	incommunicable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nmod	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	eternity	eternity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **confer** | can · passive |  | that perfect happiness |  | a creature |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | a attribute |  |  |  | for perfect happiness; as incommunicable as perfect power and eternity | 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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