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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora., sentence 4

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After a few years, having passed through all the exercises of probation, Gelaleddin was invited to a professor’s seat, and intreated to increase the splendour of Bassora.

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**What happens:** pass, invite, intreat, increase, exercise · **To what, where:** exercises, Gelaleddin, splendour, probation

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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: 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:pg62868:14:4
# text = After a few years, having passed through all the exercises of probation, Gelaleddin was invited to a professor’s seat, and intreated to increase the splendour of Bassora.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	aux	_	_
7	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	exercises	exercise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	probation	probation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	Gelaleddin	Gelaleddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	invited	invite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	professor	professor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	intreated	intreat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	increase	increase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	splendour	splendour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Bassora	Bassora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | gerund · perfect |  |  |  | all exercises of probation | year |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through exercise=Location |
| 2 | **invite** | past · passive |  | Gelaleddin |  |  |  | to a professor's seat | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **intreat** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **increase** | to-infinitive |  | the splendour of Bassora |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer splendour=Patient |
| 5 | **exercise** |  |  | probation |  |  |  |  | nom exercise «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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