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title: He surveyed the spaciousness of the apartments, admired the walks hu… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: He surveyed the spaciousness of the apartments, admired the walks hung with golden tapestry, and the floors covered with silken carpets, and despised the simple neatness of his own little habitation. Who acts: Ortogrul, walks. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymo
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Ortogrul of Basra., sentence 4

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He surveyed the spaciousness of the apartments, admired the walks hung with golden tapestry, and the floors covered with silken carpets, and despised the simple neatness of his own little habitation.

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**Who acts:** Ortogrul, walks · **What happens:** survey, admire, hang, cover, despise · **To what, where:** spaciousness, floors, simple neatness

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Story of Ortogrul of Basra.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ortogrul, walks), 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:pg62868:15:4
# text = He surveyed the spaciousness of the apartments, admired the walks hung with golden tapestry, and the floors covered with silken carpets, and despised the simple neatness of his own little habitation.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	surveyed	survey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	spaciousness	spaciousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	apartments	apartment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	admired	admire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	walks	walk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	floors	floor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	carpets	carpet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	despised	despise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	neatness	neatness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
32	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	habitation	habitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **survey** | past | Ortogrul | the spaciousness of the apartments |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spaciousness=Theme |
| 2 | **admire** | past | Ortogrul *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hang** | past | the walks |  |  |  |  | with golden tapestry | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cover** | participle · passive |  | the floors |  |  |  | with silken carpets | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with carpet=Theme |
| 5 | **despise** | past | Ortogrul *not said here* | the simple neatness of Ortogrul's own little habitation |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neatness=Stimulus |

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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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