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title: “Mention not the name of man,” cried the hermit with indignation; “h… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: “Mention not the name of man,” cried the hermit with indignation; “here let me live retired from a base ungrateful world; here, in the forest I shall find no flatterers. Who acts: Mention. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Story of Mencius., with its depend
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Mencius., sentence 6

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“Mention not the name of man,” cried the hermit with indignation; “here let me live retired from a base ungrateful world; here, in the forest I shall find no flatterers.

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**Who acts:** Mention · **What happens:** cry, let, live, retire, find, name · **To what, where:** hermit, Mention, base ungrateful world, flatterers, forest, man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Mention), 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:pg62868:3:6
# text = “Mention not the name of man,” cried the hermit with indignation; “here let me live retired from a base ungrateful world; here, in the forest I shall find no flatterers.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Mention	mention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
10	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	indignation	indignation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	retired	retire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	xcomp	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
28	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
36	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	37	det	_	_
37	flatterers	flatterer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Mention | the hermit |  |  |  | with indignation | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Mention |  | here; here |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** *in a quote* | infinitive | Mention *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **retire** *in a quote* | participle | Mention *not said here* |  |  | a base ungrateful world |  |  | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from world=Source |
| 5 | **find** *in a quote* | shall | Mention | no flatterers |  | the forest |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flatterer=Topic |
| 6 | **name** *in a quote* |  |  | man |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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