🌲 Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 43

As to me, I never desired it, but to place it in my cabinet, as a talisman composed by a sage whom I revere, and am pleased to expose sometimes to those who come to visit me: and to prove to thee,” added he, “that curiosity was the only occasion of my search for it; here are keys of my magazines, open them, and thou shalt judge of my riches: thou shalt tell me whether the most insatiable miser would not be satisfied with them.”

Who acts: I, light, thou, curiosity, my · What happens: not desire, place, compose, revere, be, expose · To what, where: light, cabinet, talisman, sage, those, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Ingratitude Punished.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, light, thou, curiosity), 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

Pragmatics

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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