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title: Thou art content, and hast therefore neither avarice nor ambition: t… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou art content, and hast therefore neither avarice nor ambition: to exalt thee, would destroy the simplicity of thy life, and diminish that happiness which I have no power either to increase or continue.” Who acts: I, happiness. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Ano
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 20

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Thou art content, and hast therefore neither avarice nor ambition: to exalt thee, would destroy the simplicity of thy life, and diminish that happiness which I have no power either to increase or continue.”

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**Who acts:** I, happiness · **What happens:** have, exalt, destroy, diminish, increase, continue · **To what, where:** avarice, thee, simplicity, happiness

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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, happiness), 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:pg62868:7:20
# text = Thou art content, and hast therefore neither avarice nor ambition: to exalt thee, would destroy the simplicity of thy life, and diminish that happiness which I have no power either to increase or continue.”
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nsubj	_	_
2	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
7	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	avarice	avarice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	11	cc	_	_
11	ambition	ambition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	exalt	exalt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
15	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	simplicity	simplicity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	diminish	diminish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
28	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obj	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	33	det	_	_
33	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	36	advmod	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	increase	increase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
37	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	continue	continue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  | neither avarice nor ambition |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent avarice=Patient |
| 2 | **exalt** | to-infinitive |  | thee |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus |
| 3 | **destroy** | would |  | the simplicity of thy life |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent simplicity=Patient |
| 4 | **diminish** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **have** | present | I | happiness |  |  |  | no power *obj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **increase** | to-infinitive | happiness |  |  |  |  | either *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **continue** | infinitive | happiness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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