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title: “Ah, Sir,” said the dervise, “a house that changes its inhabitants s… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: “Ah, Sir,” said the dervise, “a house that changes its inhabitants so often, and receives such a perpetual succession of guests, is not a palace, but a caravansary.” Who acts: Sir, house. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Story of a Dervise., with its depen
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of a Dervise., sentence 16

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“Ah, Sir,” said the dervise, “a house that changes its inhabitants so often, and receives such a perpetual succession of guests, is not a palace, but a caravansary.”

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**Who acts:** Sir, house · **What happens:** say, change, receive, not be · **To what, where:** dervise, inhabitants, perpetual succession, palace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Story of a Dervise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, house), 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:pg62868:9:16
# text = “Ah, Sir,” said the dervise, “a house that changes its inhabitants so often, and receives such a perpetual succession of guests, is not a palace, but a caravansary.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dervise	dervise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	often	often	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	receives	receive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
23	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	26	det:predet	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	perpetual	perpetual	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	succession	succession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	caravansary	caravansary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Sir | the dervise |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **change** *in a quote* | present | a house | house's inhabitants |  |  |  | often *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inhabitant=Patient |
| 3 | **receive** *in a quote* | present |  | such perpetual succession of guests |  |  |  | a caravansary *obl* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent succession=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | a palace |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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