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title: Because I had the probity, or rather the folly, to bring it back to… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Because I had the probity, or rather the folly, to bring it back to him; he profits by my labour, and the danger I have incurred in so long a journey. Who acts: I, Abdallah. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Ingratitude Punished., with its dependency tree a
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 53

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Because I had the probity, or rather the folly, to bring it back to him; he profits by my labour, and the danger I have incurred in so long a journey.

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**Who acts:** I, Abdallah · **What happens:** have, bring back, profit, incur · **To what, where:** probity, Abdallah, danger, journey

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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 (I, Abdallah), 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:pg62868:22:53
# text = Because I had the probity, or rather the folly, to bring it back to him; he profits by my labour, and the danger I have incurred in so long a journey.
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	probity	probity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	folly	folly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	profits	profit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	incurred	incur	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	35	advmod	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | I | the probity |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent probity=Patient |
| 2 | **bring back** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | probity | Abdallah |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Destination |
| 3 | **profit** | present | Abdallah |  |  |  |  | by my labour | vn benefit-72.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Beneficiary by labour=Causer |
| 4 | **incur** | present · perfect · passive |  | the danger |  | a journey |  | I *nsubj* | 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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