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title: Setting up a dismal yell, they surrounded them; and advancing nearer… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Setting up a dismal yell, they surrounded them; and advancing nearer and nearer with a kind of clubs, seemed determined to dispatch them, without sense of hospitality or mercy. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Basket Maker., with its dependency tree an
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Basket Maker., sentence 16

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Setting up a dismal yell, they surrounded them; and advancing nearer and nearer with a kind of clubs, seemed determined to dispatch them, without sense of hospitality or mercy.

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**What happens:** set up, surround, advance, seem, dispatch, sense · **To what, where:** dismal yell, gallies, hospitality

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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:pg62868:11:16
# text = Setting up a dismal yell, they surrounded them; and advancing nearer and nearer with a kind of clubs, seemed determined to dispatch them, without sense of hospitality or mercy.
1	Setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	dismal	dismal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	yell	yell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	advancing	advance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
13	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	xcomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	clubs	club	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
22	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	dispatch	dispatch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	without	without	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set up** | gerund |  | a dismal yell |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient yell=Result |
| 2 | **surround** | participle · passive |  | gallies *= gally* |  |  |  | strangers *= stranger* *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **advance** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with a kind of clubs; near *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **seem** | past |  |  |  |  |  | determined *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **dispatch** | to-infinitive |  | gallies *= gally* |  |  |  | without sense of hospitality or mercy | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 6 | **sense** |  |  | hospitality or mercy |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition 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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