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title: The courtiers upon hearing this plain sentence, smiled, and said wit… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: The courtiers upon hearing this plain sentence, smiled, and said with a sneer, “The dervise is well paid for his maxim.” Who acts: courtiers. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Cham and the Dervise., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Cham and the Dervise., sentence 3

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The courtiers upon hearing this plain sentence, smiled, and said with a sneer, “The dervise is well paid for his maxim.”

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**Who acts:** courtiers · **What happens:** hear, smile, say, pay · **To what, where:** plain sentence, dervise · **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 (courtiers), 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:pg62868:6:3
# text = The courtiers upon hearing this plain sentence, smiled, and said with a sneer, “The dervise is well paid for his maxim.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sneer	sneer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	dervise	dervise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
22	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	maxim	maxim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund | the courtiers *not said here* | this plain sentence |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sentence=Stimulus |
| 2 | **smile** | past | the courtiers |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | with a sneer | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with sneer=Manner |
| 4 | **pay** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | the dervise |  |  |  | for Dervise's maxim; well *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Asset for maxim=Theme |

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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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