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title: He looked round with a smile of complacency; perceiving that though… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: He looked round with a smile of complacency; perceiving that though it was mean, it was neat, and that though I was poor, I appeared to be content. Who acts: Almalic, that, complacency, I. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Omar., with its depen
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 10

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He looked round with a smile of complacency; perceiving that though it was mean, it was neat, and that though I was poor, I appeared to be content.

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**Who acts:** Almalic, that, complacency, I · **What happens:** look round, perceive, be, appear, smile · **To what, where:** complacency

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Omar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Almalic, that, complacency, I), 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:pg62868:7:10
# text = He looked round with a smile of complacency; perceiving that though it was mean, it was neat, and that though I was poor, I appeared to be content.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	round	round	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	complacency	complacency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	perceiving	perceive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
12	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	neat	neat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
23	though	though	ADV	RB	_	26	mark	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
32	content	content	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look round** | past | Almalic |  |  |  |  | with a smile of complacency; round *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **perceive** | gerund | Almalic *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | complacency *nsubj*; mean *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | complacency |  |  |  |  | neat *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | I *nsubj*; poor *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **appear** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | content *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **smile** |  |  | complacency |  |  |  |  | nom smile «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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