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title: “O Being, kind and beneficent,” says Hamet, “let thine eye pardon my… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: “O Being, kind and beneficent,” says Hamet, “let thine eye pardon my confusion. Who acts: Hamet, thine, my. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Hamet and Raschid., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Hamet and Raschid., sentence 10

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“O Being, kind and beneficent,” says Hamet, “let thine eye pardon my confusion.

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**Who acts:** Hamet, thine, my · **What happens:** be, say, let, pardon, confuse · **To what, where:** eye pardon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Hamet and Raschid.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hamet, thine, my), 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:pg62868:5:10
# text = “O Being, kind and beneficent,” says Hamet, “let thine eye pardon my confusion.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	5	mark	_	_
3	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	beneficent	beneficent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Hamet	Hamet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
15	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	pardon	pardon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | gerund | Hamet *not said here* |  |  |  |  | kind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* |  | Hamet *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Hamet |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | thine eye pardon |  |  |  | my confusion *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient confusion=Theme |
| 5 | **pardon** *in a quote* |  | thine |  |  |  |  |  | nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **confuse** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom confusion «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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