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title: The remembrance of both is bitter; for the pleasures of neither can… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: The remembrance of both is bitter; for the pleasures of neither can return. Who acts: remembrance, pleasures. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Omar., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 27

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The remembrance of both is bitter; for the pleasures of neither can return.

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**Who acts:** remembrance, pleasures · **What happens:** be, return

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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 (remembrance, pleasures), 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:pg62868:8:27
# text = The remembrance of both is bitter; for the pleasures of neither can return.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pleasures	pleasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	nmod	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the remembrance of both |  |  |  |  | bitter *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **return** | can | the pleasures of neither |  |  |  |  |  | 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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