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title: He then frequented places of public resort, and endeavoured to attra… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: He then frequented places of public resort, and endeavoured to attract notice by the copiousness of his talk. Who acts: Gelaleddin. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora., sentence 20

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He then frequented places of public resort, and endeavoured to attract notice by the copiousness of his talk.

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**Who acts:** Gelaleddin · **What happens:** frequent, endeavour, attract, talk · **To what, where:** places, notice

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gelaleddin), 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:pg62868:14:20
# text = He then frequented places of public resort, and endeavoured to attract notice by the copiousness of his talk.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	frequented	frequent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	resort	resort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	endeavoured	endeavour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	attract	attract	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	copiousness	copiousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frequent** | past | Gelaleddin | places of public resort |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **endeavour** | past | Gelaleddin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **attract** | to-infinitive | Gelaleddin *not said here* | notice |  |  |  | by the copiousness of Gelaleddin's talk | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Patient |
| 4 | **talk** |  | Gelaleddin |  |  |  |  |  | nom talk «communication 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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