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title: The Cham ordered him the sum: upon which the Dervise said, _begin no… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: The Cham ordered him the sum: upon which the Dervise said, _begin nothing of which thou hast not well considered the end_. Who acts: Cham, Dervise, _. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Cham and the Dervise., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Cham and the Dervise., sentence 2

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The Cham ordered him the sum: upon which the Dervise said, \_begin nothing of which thou hast not well considered the end\_.

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**Who acts:** Cham, Dervise, \_ · **What happens:** order, say, begin, not consider · **To what, where:** sum, Dervise, nothing, thou · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Cham and the Dervise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cham, Dervise, \_), 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:pg62868:6:2
# text = The Cham ordered him the sum: upon which the Dervise said, _begin nothing of which thou hast not well considered the end_.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Cham	Cham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Dervise	Dervise	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	_	_	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	begin	begin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	15	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
19	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
23	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | the Cham | the sum | Dervise |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary sum=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Dervise |  |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **begin** | present | \_ | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
| 4 | **not** **consider** | present · perfect · passive |  | thou |  |  | the end | which *obl*; well *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |

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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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