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title: With an insatiable thirst for knowledge, I trifled away the years of… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 36

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With an insatiable thirst for knowledge, I trifled away the years of improvement; with a restless desire of seeing different countries, I have always resided in the same city; with the highest expectation of connubial felicity, I have lived unmarried; and with unalterable resolutions of contemplative retirement, I am going to die within the walls of Bagdat.

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**Who acts:** I, restless desire · **What happens:** trifle away, see, reside, live, unmarry, go · **To what, where:** different countries, same city, highest expectation, connubial felicity, contemplative retirement

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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, restless desire), 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:pg62868:10:36
# text = With an insatiable thirst for knowledge, I trifled away the years of improvement; with a restless desire of seeing different countries, I have always resided in the same city; with the highest expectation of connubial felicity, I have lived unmarried; and with unalterable resolutions of contemplative retirement, I am going to die within the walls of Bagdat.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	insatiable	insatiable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	trifled	trifle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	improvement	improvement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	restless	restless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
20	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
22	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	28	advmod	_	_
28	resided	reside	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	37	amod	_	_
37	expectation	expectation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	connubial	connubial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	felicity	felicity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
43	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	acl	_	_
45	unmarried	unmarry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	57	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	unalterable	unalterable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	resolutions	resolution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	contemplative	contemplative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	retirement	retirement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
55	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
56	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
58	to	to	PART	TO	_	59	mark	_	_
59	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	xcomp	_	_
60	within	within	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	obl	_	_
63	of	of	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	Bagdat	Bagdat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trifle away** | past | I |  |  |  | year | with a insatiable thirst for knowledge; with a restless desire; away *property* | vn trifle-105.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with thirst=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | a restless desire *not said here* | different countries |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer country=Stimulus |
| 3 | **reside** | present · perfect | I |  |  | the same city |  | with the highest expectation of connubial felicity; always *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location |
| 4 | **live** | present · perfect | I | the highest expectation of connubial felicity *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **unmarry** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | present · progressive | I |  |  |  |  | with unalterable resolutions of contemplative retirement | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **die** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | within the walls of Bagdat | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 8 | **expect** |  |  | connubial felicity |  |  |  |  | nom expectation «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 9 | **resolve** |  |  | contemplative retirement |  |  |  |  | nom resolution «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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