--- title: Return, my son, to thy labour; thy food shall be again tasteful, and… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics description: Return, my son, to thy labour; thy food shall be again tasteful, and thy rest shall be sweet: to thy content also will be added stability, when it depends not upon that which is possessed upon earth, but upon that which is expected in Heaven.” Who acts: food, rest, it. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (food, rest, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62868:8:36 # text = Return, my son, to thy labour; thy food shall be again tasteful, and thy rest shall be sweet: to thy content also will be added stability, when it depends not upon that which is possessed upon earth, but upon that which is expected in Heaven.” 1 Return return NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 labour labour NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 10 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 12 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 13 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 cop _ _ 14 again again ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 tasteful tasteful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 cop _ _ 22 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 23 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 24 to to 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 content content NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 27 also also ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 28 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 added add VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 amod _ _ 31 stability stability NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 35 advmod _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 depends depend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 37 upon upon ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 possessed possess VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 parataxis _ _ 42 upon upon ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 45 but but CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 46 upon upon ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 50 nsubj:pass _ _ 48 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 50 nsubj:pass _ _ 49 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 aux:pass _ _ 50 expected expect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 conj _ _ 51 in in ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 Heaven Heaven PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 ” " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | shall | thy food | | | | again | tasteful *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | shall | thy rest | | | | | added stability *conj*; sweet *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | future · passive | | | | | | to thy content | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: to content=Co-Patient | | 4 | **not** **depend** | present | it | | | | | | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **possess** | present · passive | | that | | | | upon earth; which *nsubj:pass* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **expect** | present · passive | | that | | Heaven | | Return and my son and thy labour *nsubj:pass* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/8/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/8/37/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Omar.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/8/)