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title: If thy supreme desire had been the delights of Paradise, and thou ha… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: If thy supreme desire had been the delights of Paradise, and thou hadst believed that by the tenor of thy life these delights had been secured, as more could not have been given thee, thou wouldst not have regretted that less was not offered. Who acts: tenor, thy, Paradise. A sentence of «Oriental t
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 33

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If thy supreme desire had been the delights of Paradise, and thou hadst believed that by the tenor of thy life these delights had been secured, as more could not have been given thee, thou wouldst not have regretted that less was not offered.

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**Who acts:** tenor, thy, Paradise · **What happens:** believe, secure, not give, not regret, not offer, desire · **To what, where:** thou, delights, more, less · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (tenor, thy, Paradise), 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:pg62868:8:33
# text = If thy supreme desire had been the delights of Paradise, and thou hadst believed that by the tenor of thy life these delights had been secured, as more could not have been given thee, thou wouldst not have regretted that less was not offered.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	supreme	supreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	delights	delight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Paradise	paradise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	hadst	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	believed	believe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tenor	tenor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	delights	delight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	secured	secure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
30	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
33	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux	_	_
34	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	advcl	_	_
36	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	wouldst	would	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
41	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	aux	_	_
42	regretted	regret	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
44	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux:pass	_	_
46	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
47	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | participle · passive |  | thou |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **secure** | past · perfect · passive | the tenor of thy life | this delights |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **give** | could · perfect · passive |  | more |  |  |  | thee *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient thou=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **regret** | would · perfect · passive |  | thou |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **offer** | past · passive |  | less |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **desire** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **delight** |  | Paradise |  |  |  |  |  | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: of=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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