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title: Hast thou courage to descend into this subterraneous vault?” continu… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Hast thou courage to descend into this subterraneous vault?” continued he. Who acts: Dervise. 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 8

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Hast thou courage to descend into this subterraneous vault?” continued he.

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**Who acts:** Dervise · **What happens:** have, descend, continue · **To what, where:** thou, subterraneous vault · **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 (Dervise), 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:pg62868:22:8
# text = Hast thou courage to descend into this subterraneous vault?” continued he.
1	Hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	obj	_	_
3	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	descend	descend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	subterraneous	subterraneous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	vault	vault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
12	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  | thou |  |  |  | courage *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **descend** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | this subterraneous vault |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into vault=Location |
| 3 | **continue** *in a quote* | past | Dervise |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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