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title: His chamber was filled by visitants, eager to catch the dictates of… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: His chamber was filled by visitants, eager to catch the dictates of experience, and officious to pay the tribute of admiration. Who acts: visitants, experience. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Omar’s Plan of Life., with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 8

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His chamber was filled by visitants, eager to catch the dictates of experience, and officious to pay the tribute of admiration.

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**Who acts:** visitants, experience · **What happens:** fill, catch, pay, dictate · **To what, where:** chamber, dictates, tribute

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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 (visitants, experience), 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:pg62868:10:8
# text = His chamber was filled by visitants, eager to catch the dictates of experience, and officious to pay the tribute of admiration.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	visitants	visitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	eager	eager	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	dictates	dictate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	officious	officious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	csubj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	tribute	tribute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | past · passive | visitants | vigour's chamber |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **catch** | to-infinitive | visitants *not said here* | the dictates of experience |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dictate=Theme |
| 3 | **pay** | to-infinitive |  | the tribute of admiration |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribute=Asset |
| 4 | **dictate** |  | experience |  |  |  |  |  | nom dictate «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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