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title: When he was some days journey from Balsora, he sold his slave, resol… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: When he was some days journey from Balsora, he sold his slave, resolving not to have a witness of his former poverty, nor of the source of his present riches. Who acts: Abounadar. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Ingratitude Punished., with its dependency 
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 62

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When he was some days journey from Balsora, he sold his slave, resolving not to have a witness of his former poverty, nor of the source of his present riches.

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**Who acts:** Abounadar · **What happens:** be, sell, resolve, not have · **To what, where:** days journey, Balsora, slave, witness

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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 (Abounadar), 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:pg62868:22:62
# text = When he was some days journey from Balsora, he sold his slave, resolving not to have a witness of his former poverty, nor of the source of his present riches.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	compound	_	_
6	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Balsora	Balsora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	resolving	resolve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	witness	witness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	29	cc	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Abounadar | some days journey |  | Balsora |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sell** | past | Abounadar | Abounadar's slave |  |  |  | the source of Abounadar's present riches *conj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme |
| 3 | **resolve** | gerund | Abounadar *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **have** | to-infinitive | Abounadar *not said here* | a witness of Abounadar's former poverty |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witness=Patient |

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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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