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title: Come in: examples of vice may sometimes strengthen us in the ways of… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Come in: examples of vice may sometimes strengthen us in the ways of virtue.” Who acts: you, examples. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Story of Mencius., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Mencius., sentence 4

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Come in: examples of vice may sometimes strengthen us in the ways of virtue.”

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**Who acts:** you, examples · **What happens:** come in, strengthen, exemplify · **To what, where:** us, ways, vice

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Story of Mencius.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, examples), 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:pg62868:3:4
# text = Come in: examples of vice may sometimes strengthen us in the ways of virtue.”
1	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
4	examples	example	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	vice	vice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
9	strengthen	strengthen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
10	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	virtue	virtue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come in** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **strengthen** | may | examples of vice | us |  | the ways of virtue |  | sometimes *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent we=Patient |
| 3 | **exemplify** |  |  | vice |  |  |  |  | nom example «cognition transitive»: of=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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