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title: The content which was once enjoyed was but the lethargy of the soul;… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: The content which was once enjoyed was but the lethargy of the soul; and the distress which is now suffered, will but quicken it to action. Who acts: content. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Omar., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 34

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The content which was once enjoyed was but the lethargy of the soul; and the distress which is now suffered, will but quicken it to action.

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**Who acts:** content · **What happens:** enjoy, be, suffer, quicken · **To what, where:** content, lethargy, distress

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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 (content), 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:pg62868:8:34
# text = The content which was once enjoyed was but the lethargy of the soul; and the distress which is now suffered, will but quicken it to action.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
6	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lethargy	lethargy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	distress	distress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
21	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	quicken	quicken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enjoy** | past · passive |  | the content |  |  |  | once *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the content | the lethargy |  |  |  | of the soul; the distress *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **suffer** | present · passive |  | the distress |  |  | now |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **quicken** | future | the content *not said here* | content |  |  |  | to action | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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