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title: Through the middle there was a green walk; at the end a wild desart;… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Through the middle there was a green walk; at the end a wild desart; and beyond, impenetrable darkness. 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 21

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Through the middle there was a green walk; at the end a wild desart; and beyond, impenetrable darkness.

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** green walk, middle

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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: 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:pg62868:12:21
# text = Through the middle there was a green walk; at the end a wild desart; and beyond, impenetrable darkness.
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	desart	desart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	beyond	beyond	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	impenetrable	impenetrable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a green walk and impenetrable darkness |  | the middle | at the end | impenetrable darkness *conj* | tree rules |

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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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