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title: “As I was sitting one evening at the porch of the temple, pensive an… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: “As I was sitting one evening at the porch of the temple, pensive and alone, mine eye wandered among the multitude that was scattered before me; and while I remarked the weariness and solicitude which was visible in every countenance, I was suddenly struck with a sense of their condition. Who acts: 
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almet., sentence 9

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“As I was sitting one evening at the porch of the temple, pensive and alone, mine eye wandered among the multitude that was scattered before me; and while I remarked the weariness and solicitude which was visible in every countenance, I was suddenly struck with a sense of their condition.

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**Who acts:** Almet, weariness · **What happens:** sit, wander, scatter, remark, be, strike · **To what, where:** porch, multitude, weariness, countenance, Almet, condition

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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 (Almet, weariness), 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:pg62868:12:9
# text = “As I was sitting one evening at the porch of the temple, pensive and alone, mine eye wandered among the multitude that was scattered before me; and while I remarked the weariness and solicitude which was visible in every countenance, I was suddenly struck with a sense of their condition.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	porch	porch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	pensive	pensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
19	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	among	among	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	before	before	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	remarked	remark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	weariness	weariness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	solicitude	solicitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
39	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
41	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	acl:relcl	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	44	det	_	_
44	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
47	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux:pass	_	_
48	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	_
50	with	with	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** *in a quote* | past · progressive | Almet |  |  | the porch of the temple | evening |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at porch=Location |
| 2 | **wander** *in a quote* | past | Almet |  |  | the multitude |  | eye *nsubj* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among multitude=Trajectory |
| 3 | **scatter** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | the multitude |  |  | before Almet |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before i=Destination |
| 4 | **remark** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Almet | the weariness and solicitude |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent weariness=Topic |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the weariness and solicitude |  |  | every countenance |  | visible *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **strike** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | Almet |  |  |  | with a sense of weariness's condition; suddenly *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with sense=Instrument |
| 7 | **sense** *in a quote* |  |  | weariness's condition |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **condition** *in a quote* |  | weariness |  |  |  |  |  | nom condition «state transitive»: 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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