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title: “You have then been used ill by mankind?” interrupted the philosophe… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: “You have then been used ill by mankind?” interrupted the philosopher drily. 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 8

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“You have then been used ill by mankind?” interrupted the philosopher drily.

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**What happens:** use, interrupt · **To what, where:** You, philosopher

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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: 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:pg62868:3:8
# text = “You have then been used ill by mankind?” interrupted the philosopher drily.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
7	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	mankind	mankind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
12	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	philosopher	philosopher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	drily	drily	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **use** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | You |  |  | then | ill *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **interrupt** | past |  | the philosopher |  |  |  | drily *property* | tree rules |

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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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