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title: In my fiftieth year I began to suspect that the time of travelling w… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: In my fiftieth year I began to suspect that the time of travelling was past, and thought it best to lay hold on the felicity yet in my power, and indulge myself in domestic pleasures. Who acts: I, time. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Omar’s Plan of Life.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 31

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In my fiftieth year I began to suspect that the time of travelling was past, and thought it best to lay hold on the felicity yet in my power, and indulge myself in domestic pleasures.

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**Who acts:** I, time · **What happens:** begin, suspect, be, think, lay, indulge · **To what, where:** hold, felicity, myself, domestic pleasures

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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, time), 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:pg62868:10:31
# text = In my fiftieth year I began to suspect that the time of travelling was past, and thought it best to lay hold on the felicity yet in my power, and indulge myself in domestic pleasures.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	fiftieth	fiftieth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	suspect	suspect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	travelling	travelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	past	past	ADV	RB	_	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	expl	_	_
20	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	ccomp	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
23	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	felicity	felicity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	indulge	indulge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
34	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	33	obj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	pleasures	pleasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | I |  |  |  | year |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **suspect** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the time of travelling |  |  |  |  | past *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lay** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | hold |  | the felicity |  | in my power | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hold=Theme on felicity=Destination |
| 6 | **indulge** | infinitive | I *not said here* | myself |  | domestic pleasures |  |  | tree rules |

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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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