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title: The lesson of thy life the Prophet has in mercy appointed me to expl… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: The lesson of thy life the Prophet has in mercy appointed me to explain. Who acts: lesson. 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 30

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The lesson of thy life the Prophet has in mercy appointed me to explain.

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**Who acts:** lesson · **What happens:** have, appoint, explain · **To what, where:** me, mercy

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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 (lesson), 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:pg62868:8:30
# text = The lesson of thy life the Prophet has in mercy appointed me to explain.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Prophet	Prophet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
11	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the lesson of thy life |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **appoint** | past |  | me |  | mercy |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **explain** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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