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title: O! let not thy heart despise me, thou whom experience hast not taugh… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: O! let not thy heart despise me, thou whom experience hast not taught, that it is misery to lose that which it is not happiness to possess. Who acts: you, heart, thou, command. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Omar., with its dependency tree a
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 23

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O! let not thy heart despise me, thou whom experience hast not taught, that it is misery to lose that which it is not happiness to possess.

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**Who acts:** you, heart, thou, command · **What happens:** let, not despise, experience, have, not teach, be · **To what, where:** me, misery, 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 (you, heart, thou, command), 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:pg62868:8:23
# text = O! let not thy heart despise me, thou whom experience hast not taught, that it is misery to lose that which it is not happiness to possess.
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
5	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	despise	despise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
11	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
12	experience	experience	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	misery	misery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	ccomp	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **despise** | infinitive | thy heart | me |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 3 | **experience** | present | thou |  |  |  |  | whom *obj* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
| 4 | **have** | present | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **teach** *speech: other* | participle | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | present | command | misery |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **lose** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **not** **is a** | present |  | happiness |  |  |  | which *nsubj*; command *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 9 | **possess** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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