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title: I now postponed my purpose of travelling; for why should I go abroad… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: I now postponed my purpose of travelling; for why should I go abroad while so much remained to be learned at home? Who acts: I, travelling. 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 clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 25

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I now postponed my purpose of travelling; for why should I go abroad while so much remained to be learned at home?

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**Who acts:** I, travelling · **What happens:** postpone, go, remain, learn, purpose · **To what, where:** purpose, home

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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, travelling), 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:pg62868:10:25
# text = I now postponed my purpose of travelling; for why should I go abroad while so much remained to be learned at home?
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	postponed	postpone	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	travelling	travelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	much	much	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	xcomp	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **postpone** | past | I | my purpose of travelling |  |  | now |  | vn delay-53.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purpose=Eventuality |
| 2 | **go** | should | I |  |  |  |  | abroad *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **remain** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **learn** | to-infinitive · passive | I *not said here* |  |  | home |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **purpose** |  | travelling |  |  |  |  |  | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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