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title: I was now encouraged to look up, and I replied, “Let my Lord forgive… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: I was now encouraged to look up, and I replied, “Let my Lord forgive the presumption of his servant, who rather than utter a falsehood, would be dumb for ever. Who acts: I, Lord, presumption. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Omar., with its de
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 9

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I was now encouraged to look up, and I replied, “Let my Lord forgive the presumption of his servant, who rather than utter a falsehood, would be dumb for ever.

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**Who acts:** I, Lord, presumption · **What happens:** encourage, look up, reply, let, forgive, utter · **To what, where:** I, Lord, presumption, falsehood, servant · **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 (I, Lord, presumption), 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:pg62868:8:9
# text = I was now encouraged to look up, and I replied, “Let my Lord forgive the presumption of his servant, who rather than utter a falsehood, would be dumb for ever.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	encouraged	encourage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	presumption	presumption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
25	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	27	cc	_	_
26	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	utter	utter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	falsehood	falsehood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
33	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **encourage** | past · passive |  | I |  |  | now |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **look up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | my Lord |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **forgive** *in a quote* | infinitive | my Lord *not said here* | the presumption of Lord's servant |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presumption=Theme |
| 6 | **utter** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive | the presumption of Lord's servant | a falsehood |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent falsehood=Topic |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | would |  |  |  |  |  | dumb *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **presume** *in a quote* |  |  | Lord's servant |  |  |  |  | nom presumption «cognition transitive»: of=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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