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title: The sun was gone down, the multitude was retired to rest, and the so… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: The sun was gone down, the multitude was retired to rest, and the solemn quiet of midnight concurred with the resolution of my doubts to complete the tranquillity of my mind. Who acts: my. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almet, Concluded., wi
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almet, Concluded., sentence 14

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The sun was gone down, the multitude was retired to rest, and the solemn quiet of midnight concurred with the resolution of my doubts to complete the tranquillity of my mind.

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**Who acts:** my · **What happens:** go down, retire, rest, concur, complete, resolve · **To what, where:** sun, multitude, solemn quiet, tranquillity, doubts

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almet, Concluded.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (my), 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:pg62868:13:14
# text = The sun was gone down, the multitude was retired to rest, and the solemn quiet of midnight concurred with the resolution of my doubts to complete the tranquillity of my mind.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	retired	retire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	solemn	solemn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	quiet	quiet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	concurred	concur	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	resolution	resolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	doubts	doubt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	complete	complete	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	tranquillity	tranquillity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | past · passive |  | the sun |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: subject=Extent |
| 2 | **retire** | past · passive |  | the multitude |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rest** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **concur** | participle · passive |  | the solemn quiet of midnight |  |  |  | with the resolution of my doubts | tree rules |
| 5 | **complete** | to-infinitive |  | the tranquillity of my mind |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tranquillity=Eventuality |
| 6 | **resolve** |  |  | my doubts |  |  |  |  | nom resolution «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **doubt** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom doubt «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **mind** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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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