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title: I inquired and rejected, consulted and deliberated, till the sixty-s… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: I inquired and rejected, consulted and deliberated, till the sixty-second year made me ashamed of gazing upon girls. Who acts: I, second year. 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 claus
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 33

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I inquired and rejected, consulted and deliberated, till the sixty-second year made me ashamed of gazing upon girls.

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**Who acts:** I, second year · **What happens:** inquire, reject, consult, deliberate, make, gaze · **To what, where:** me

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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, second year), 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:pg62868:10:33
# text = I inquired and rejected, consulted and deliberated, till the sixty-second year made me ashamed of gazing upon girls.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	rejected	reject	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	consulted	consult	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	deliberated	deliberate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
15	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inquire** *speech: other* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **reject** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **consult** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **deliberate** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **make** | past | the second year | me |  |  |  | ashamed *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product |
| 6 | **gaze** | gerund | the second year *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon girls | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon girl=Theme |

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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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