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title: This proposition luckily fell in with a desire the savages expressed… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: This proposition luckily fell in with a desire the savages expressed to keep themselves at leisure, that they might crowd round, and mark the progress of a work they took such pleasure in. Who acts: proposition, savages, work. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymo
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Basket Maker., sentence 22

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This proposition luckily fell in with a desire the savages expressed to keep themselves at leisure, that they might crowd round, and mark the progress of a work they took such pleasure in.

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**Who acts:** proposition, savages, work · **What happens:** fall in, express, keep, crowd, mark, take · **To what, where:** savages, leisure, progress, such pleasure

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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: who acts (proposition, savages, work), 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:pg62868:11:22
# text = This proposition luckily fell in with a desire the savages expressed to keep themselves at leisure, that they might crowd round, and mark the progress of a work they took such pleasure in.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	proposition	proposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	luckily	luckily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	savages	savage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	expressed	express	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	leisure	leisure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	crowd	crowd	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
22	round	round	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	mark	mark	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	progress	progress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall in** | past | this proposition |  |  |  |  | luckily *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **express** | past | the savages |  |  |  |  | with a desire | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | the savages *not said here* | savages *= savage* |  | leisure |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme at leisure=Location |
| 4 | **crowd** | might | savages *= savage* |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **mark** | infinitive | savages *= savage* *not said here* | the progress of a work |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent progress=Destination |
| 6 | **take** | past | savages *= savage* | such pleasure |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme |
| 7 | **progress** |  | a work |  |  |  |  |  | nom progress «act 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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