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title: I cast mine eye upon the ground, and was about to deprecate his ange… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: I cast mine eye upon the ground, and was about to deprecate his anger, when he commanded me to be silent. Who acts: I, eye. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almet., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almet., sentence 18

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I cast mine eye upon the ground, and was about to deprecate his anger, when he commanded me to be silent.

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**Who acts:** I, eye · **What happens:** cast, be, deprecate, command, anger · **To what, where:** mine, anger, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almet.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, eye), 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:pg62868:12:18
# text = I cast mine eye upon the ground, and was about to deprecate his anger, when he commanded me to be silent.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cast	cast	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	deprecate	deprecate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cast** | present | I | mine |  |  |  | upon the ground; eye *obj* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent my=Beneficiary eye=Product |
| 2 | **is** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **deprecate** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | eye's anger |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anger=Theme |
| 4 | **command** | past | eye | me |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 5 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | eye *not said here* |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **anger** |  | eye |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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