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# The Cham and the Dervise.

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The Cham and the Dervise. of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous: the whole text, 9 sentences and 238 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.

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A certain Cham of Tartary going a progress with his nobles, was met by a Dervise, who cried with a loud voice, \_whoever will give me a hundred pieces of gold, I will give him a piece of advice\_.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") The Cham ordered him the sum: upon which the Dervise said, \_begin nothing of which thou hast not well considered the end\_.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics")

The courtiers upon hearing this plain sentence, smiled, and said with a sneer, “The dervise is well paid for his maxim.”[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") But the king was so well satisfied with the answer, that he ordered it to be written in golden letters in several places of his palace, and engraved on all his plate.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") Not long after, the king’s surgeon was bribed to kill him with a poisoned lancet at the time he let him blood.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") One day, when the king’s arm was bound, and the fatal lancet in the surgeon’s hand, he read on the bason, \_begin nothing of which thou hast not well considered the end\_.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") He immediately started, and let the lancet fall out of his hand.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") The king observed his confusion, and enquired the reason: the surgeon fell prostrate, confessed the whole affair, and was pardoned, and the conspirators died.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") The Cham, turning to his courtiers who heard the advice with contempt, told them, “that counsel could not be too much valued, which had saved a king’s life.”[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics")

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