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title: He now returned to Bassora, wearied and disgusted, but confident of… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: He now returned to Bassora, wearied and disgusted, but confident of resuming his former rank, and revelling again in satiety of praise. Who acts: service. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora., with its dependency tree and th
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora., sentence 25

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He now returned to Bassora, wearied and disgusted, but confident of resuming his former rank, and revelling again in satiety of praise.

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**Who acts:** service · **What happens:** return, weary, disgust, resume · **To what, where:** Bassora, former rank, satiety

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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 (service), 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:pg62868:14:25
# text = He now returned to Bassora, wearied and disgusted, but confident of resuming his former rank, and revelling again in satiety of praise.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Bassora	Bassora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	wearied	weary	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	disgusted	disgust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	confident	confident	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	resuming	resume	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	revelling	revelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	satiety	satiety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | service |  | Bassora |  | now |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to bassora=Result |
| 2 | **weary** | participle |  | Bassora *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **disgust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **resume** | gerund | service *not said here* | service's former rank and revelling |  | satiety of praise | again |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rank=Eventuality |

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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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