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title: I immured myself for four years, and studied the laws of the empire. — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: I immured myself for four years, and studied the laws of the empire. 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 clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 26

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I immured myself for four years, and studied the laws of the empire.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** immure, study · **To what, where:** myself, laws

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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:pg62868:10:26
# text = I immured myself for four years, and studied the laws of the empire.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	immured	immure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	studied	study	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **immure** | past | I | myself |  |  | year |  | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme |
| 2 | **study** | past | I *not said here* | the laws of the empire |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Topic |

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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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