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title: I am come to offer you gifts, which only your own folly can make vain. — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: I am come to offer you gifts, which only your own folly can make vain. Who acts: I, own folly. 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 6

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I am come to offer you gifts, which only your own folly can make vain.

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**Who acts:** I, own folly · **What happens:** come, offer, make · **To what, where:** gifts, you

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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 (I, own folly), 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:pg62868:5:6
# text = I am come to offer you gifts, which only your own folly can make vain.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	folly	folly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
16	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **offer** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | gifts | you |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal gift=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | can | your own folly | gifts |  |  |  | vain *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset which=Product |

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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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