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title: The Cham, turning to his courtiers who heard the advice with contemp… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: 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.” Who acts: Cham, courtiers, counsel, much. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Cham and the Dervis
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Cham and the Dervise., sentence 9

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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.”

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**Who acts:** Cham, courtiers, counsel, much · **What happens:** turn, hear, tell, not be, value, save · **To what, where:** courtiers, advice, life · **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, courtiers, counsel, much), 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:pg62868:6:9
# text = 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.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Cham	Cham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	contempt	contempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
24	too	too	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	nsubj	_	_
26	valued	value	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	ccomp	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’s	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | gerund | the Cham *not said here* |  |  | king's courtiers |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to courtier=Trajectory |
| 2 | **hear** | past | king's courtiers | the advice |  |  |  | with contempt | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer advice=Stimulus |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the Cham |  | courtiers *= courtier* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 4 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | could | that counsel |  |  |  |  | much *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **value** *in a quote* | past | much |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **save** *in a quote* | past · perfect · passive |  | a king's life |  |  |  | which *nsubj:pass* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary life=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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