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title: The vigour of Omar began to fail, the curls of beauty fell from his… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: The vigour of Omar began to fail, the curls of beauty fell from his head, strength departed from his hands, and agility from his feet. Who acts: vigour, curls. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Omar’s Plan of Life., with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 5

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The vigour of Omar began to fail, the curls of beauty fell from his head, strength departed from his hands, and agility from his feet.

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**Who acts:** vigour, curls · **What happens:** begin, fail, fall, depart · **To what, where:** agility, curls, head, strength, hands

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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 (vigour, curls), 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:pg62868:10:5
# text = The vigour of Omar began to fail, the curls of beauty fell from his head, strength departed from his hands, and agility from his feet.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	vigour	vigour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Omar	Omar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	fail	fail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	curls	curl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
13	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	departed	depart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	agility	agility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the vigour of Omar | agility from vigour's feet |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **fail** | to-infinitive | the vigour of Omar *not said here* | the curls |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fall** | past | the curls *not said here* |  |  | vigour's head and strength |  | of beauty | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme of beauty=Initial\_Location from head=Destination |
| 4 | **depart** | participle |  | strength *not said here* |  | vigour's hands |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from hand=Initial\_Location |

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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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