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title: I will then retire to a rural dwelling, pass my last days in obscuri… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: I will then retire to a rural dwelling, pass my last days in obscurity and contemplation, and lie silently down on the bed of death. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Omar’s Plan of Life., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 19

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I will then retire to a rural dwelling, pass my last days in obscurity and contemplation, and lie silently down on the bed of death.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** retire, pass, lie · **To what, where:** obscurity, bed

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Omar’s Plan of Life.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg62868:10:19
# text = I will then retire to a rural dwelling, pass my last days in obscurity and contemplation, and lie silently down on the bed of death.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	retire	retire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	rural	rural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	obscurity	obscurity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	contemplation	contemplation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
21	silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	down	down	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retire** | future | I |  |  |  | then | to a rural dwelling | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pass** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | obscurity and contemplation | day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in obscurity=Location |
| 3 | **lie** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | the bed of death |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location |

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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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