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title: In the midst of that vast ocean, commonly called the South-Sea, lie… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: In the midst of that vast ocean, commonly called the South-Sea, lie the islands of Solomon. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Basket Maker., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Basket Maker., sentence 1

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In the midst of that vast ocean, commonly called the South-Sea, lie the islands of Solomon.

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**What happens:** call, lie · **To what, where:** vast ocean, islands, midst · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Basket Maker.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg62868:11:1
# text = In the midst of that vast ocean, commonly called the South-Sea, lie the islands of Solomon.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	commonly	commonly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle |  | that vast ocean *not said here* |  |  |  | the South Sea *xcomp*; commonly *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lie** | present |  | the islands of Solomon |  | the midst of that vast ocean |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location island=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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