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title: He repeated every day the same ceremony, which had always the same s… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: He repeated every day the same ceremony, which had always the same success; but he could never make it succeed more than once in twenty-four hours. Who acts: Abdallah, same ceremony, ceremony. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Ingratitude Punished., with it
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 26

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He repeated every day the same ceremony, which had always the same success; but he could never make it succeed more than once in twenty-four hours.

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**Who acts:** Abdallah, same ceremony, ceremony · **What happens:** repeat, success, not make, not succeed · **To what, where:** same ceremony, ceremony, more

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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 (Abdallah, same ceremony, ceremony), 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:pg62868:22:26
# text = He repeated every day the same ceremony, which had always the same success; but he could never make it succeed more than once in twenty-four hours.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
11	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	14	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	succeed	succeed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	22	obj	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	22	advmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** | past | Abdallah | the same ceremony |  |  | day |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ceremony=Eventuality |
| 2 | **success** | past | the same ceremony |  |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **make** | could | Abdallah | ceremony |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **succeed** | infinitive | ceremony *not said here* | more |  |  | hour | once *property* | 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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