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title: It is Abounadar who is ungrateful: what wrong shall I do him in taki… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: It is Abounadar who is ungrateful: what wrong shall I do him in taking this candlestick? Who acts: candlestick, I. 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 56

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It is Abounadar who is ungrateful: what wrong shall I do him in taking this candlestick?

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**Who acts:** candlestick, I · **What happens:** be, do, take · **To what, where:** Abounadar, candlestick

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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 (candlestick, I), 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:pg62868:22:56
# text = It is Abounadar who is ungrateful: what wrong shall I do him in taking this candlestick?
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	Abounadar	Abounadar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	candlestick	candlestick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | candlestick |  |  |  |  | Abounadar *nsubj*; who *nsubj*; ungrateful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | shall | I | Abounadar |  |  |  | what *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | I *not said here* | this candlestick |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candlestick=Theme |

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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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