Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 40

Yet think not riches useless; there are purposes to which a wise man may be delighted to apply them: they may, by a rational distribution to those who want them, ease the pains of helpless disease, still the throbs of restless anxiety, relieve innocence from oppression, and raise imbecility to chearfulness and vigour.

Who acts: you, purposes, wise man, restless anxiety · What happens: not think, be, apply, want, ease, relieve · To what, where: riches, pains, innocence, imbecility, chearfulness, helpless disease

This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almamoulin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, purposes, wise man, restless anxiety), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	2 think	cc
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 think	advmod
4	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 think	obj
5	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 think	xcomp
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 are	punct
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 are	expl
8	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 think	parataxis
9	purposes	purpose	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 are	nsubj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 delighted	obl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 delighted	nsubj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 delighted	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 delighted	cop
17	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 purposes	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 apply	mark
19	apply	apply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 delighted	advcl
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 apply	obj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 may	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 may	nsubj
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 think	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 distribution	punct
25	by	by	ADP	_	28 distribution	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 distribution	det
27	rational	rational	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 distribution	amod
28	distribution	distribution	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 think	obl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 those	case
30	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 distribution	nmod
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 want	nsubj
32	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 those	acl:relcl
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 want	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 ease	punct
35	ease	ease	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 think	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 pains	det
37	pains	pain	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 ease	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 disease	case
39	helpless	helpless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 disease	amod
40	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 pains	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 throbs	punct
42	still	still	ADV	_	44 throbs	advmod
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 throbs	det
44	throbs	throb	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 disease	conj
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 anxiety	case
46	restless	restless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 anxiety	amod
47	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 throbs	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 relieve	punct
49	relieve	relieve	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 think	conj
50	innocence	innocence	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 relieve	obj
51	from	from	ADP	_	52 oppression	case
52	oppression	oppression	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 relieve	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 raise	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 raise	cc
55	raise	raise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 think	conj
56	imbecility	imbecility	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 raise	obj
57	to	to	ADP	_	58 chearfulness	case
58	chearfulness	chearfulness	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 raise	obl
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 vigour	cc
60	vigour	vigour	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 chearfulness	conj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	imperative	you not said here	riches		by a rational distribution to those; useless property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot rich=Theme
2	does	present	purposes		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	may	a wise man			to purposes; delighted property	tree rules
4	apply	to-infinitive	a wise man not said here	riches = rich			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	want	present		riches = rich		who nsubj	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
6	ease	infinitive	you not said here	the pains of helpless disease and the throbs of restless anxiety			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pain=Patient
7	relieve	infinitive	you not said here	innocence		from oppression	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer innocence=Source from oppression=Theme
8	raise	infinitive	you not said here	imbecility	chearfulness and vigour		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent imbecility=Theme to chearfulness=Destination
9	pain			helpless disease and the throbs of restless anxiety			nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient
10	throb		restless anxiety				nom throb «state intransitive»: of=agent

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.

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🌲 Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 40

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Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 40