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title: “Thou art but an ungrateful wretch,” said he to him: “Dost thou imag… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: “Thou art but an ungrateful wretch,” said he to him: “Dost thou imagine that thou canst impose upon me? Who acts: ungrateful wretch, thou. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Ingratitude Punished., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 39

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“Thou art but an ungrateful wretch,” said he to him: “Dost thou imagine that thou canst impose upon me?

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**Who acts:** ungrateful wretch, thou · **What happens:** say, do, imagine, impose · **To what, where:** Abdallah, thou · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (ungrateful wretch, thou), 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:pg62868:22:39
# text = “Thou art but an ungrateful wretch,” said he to him: “Dost thou imagine that thou canst impose upon me?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wretch	wretch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Dost	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
17	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	obj	_	_
18	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nsubj	_	_
21	canst	can	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	impose	impose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | a ungrateful wretch |  | Abdallah |  |  | wretch *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | present |  | thou |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality |
| 3 | **imagine** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **impose** *in a quote* | can | thou |  |  |  |  | upon a ungrateful wretch *= wretch* | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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