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title: By the bow-string, I can repress violence and fraud; and by the dele… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: By the bow-string, I can repress violence and fraud; and by the delegation of my power, I can transfer the insatiable wishes of avarice and ambition from one object to another; but with respect to virtue, I am impotent: if I could reward it, I would reward it in thee. Who acts: I, avarice. A sentenc
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 19

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By the bow-string, I can repress violence and fraud; and by the delegation of my power, I can transfer the insatiable wishes of avarice and ambition from one object to another; but with respect to virtue, I am impotent: if I could reward it, I would reward it in thee.

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**Who acts:** I, avarice · **What happens:** repress, transfer, be, reward, wish · **To what, where:** violence, insatiable wishes, impotent, life, thee

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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 (I, avarice), 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:pg62868:7:19
# text = By the bow-string, I can repress violence and fraud; and by the delegation of my power, I can transfer the insatiable wishes of avarice and ambition from one object to another; but with respect to virtue, I am impotent: if I could reward it, I would reward it in thee.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	repress	repress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	violence	violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	fraud	fraud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	delegation	delegation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	transfer	transfer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	insatiable	insatiable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	avarice	avarice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	ambition	ambition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	virtue	virtue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
44	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
46	impotent	impotent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	51	punct	_	_
48	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
49	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	reward	reward	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
52	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
55	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
56	reward	reward	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	conj	_	_
57	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obj	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repress** | can | I | violence and fraud |  |  |  | by the bow string | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent violence=Patient by string=Location |
| 2 | **transfer** | can | I | the insatiable wishes of avarice and ambition from one object to another |  |  |  | by the delegation of my power | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent wish=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | I | impotent |  |  |  | with respect to virtue | tree rules |
| 4 | **reward** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | I | life |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 5 | **reward** | would | I | life |  | thee |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 6 | **wish** |  | avarice |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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