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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 31

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“Thou wast once content with poverty and labour, only because they were become habitual, and ease and affluence were placed beyond thy hope; for when ease and affluence approached thee, thou wast content with poverty and labour no more.

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**Who acts:** ease, thy · **What happens:** become, place, approach, hope · **To what, where:** poverty, ease, hope, 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 (ease, thy), 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:pg62868:8:31
# text = “Thou wast once content with poverty and labour, only because they were become habitual, and ease and affluence were placed beyond thy hope; for when ease and affluence approached thee, thou wast content with poverty and labour no more.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wast	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
5	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	amod	_	_
16	habitual	habitual	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	affluence	affluence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
24	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	33	mark	_	_
30	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	affluence	affluence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	37	nsubj	_	_
37	wast	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
38	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
43	no	no	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | poverty |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **place** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | ease and affluence |  | thy hope |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme beyond hope=Destination |
| 3 | **approach** *in a quote* | past | ease and affluence | thee |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 5 | **hope** *in a quote* |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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