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title: A Dervise, venerable by his age, fell ill in the house of a woman wh… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: A Dervise, venerable by his age, fell ill in the house of a woman who had been long a widow, and lived in extreme poverty in the suburbs of Balsora. Who acts: Dervise, woman. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Ingratitude Punished., with its dependency tree 
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 1

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A Dervise, venerable by his age, fell ill in the house of a woman who had been long a widow, and lived in extreme poverty in the suburbs of Balsora.

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**Who acts:** Dervise, woman · **What happens:** fall, be, live · **To what, where:** house, widow, extreme poverty

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Ingratitude Punished.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dervise, woman), 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:pg62868:22:1
# text = A Dervise, venerable by his age, fell ill in the house of a woman who had been long a widow, and lived in extreme poverty in the suburbs of Balsora.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Dervise	Dervise	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	venerable	venerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
20	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	extreme	extreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	suburbs	suburb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Balsora	Balsora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | a Dervise |  |  | the house of a woman |  | ill *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past · perfect | a woman | a widow |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | past | a Dervise *not said here* |  |  | extreme poverty |  | in the suburbs of Balsora | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in poverty=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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