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title: I will not, however, stop there, but still continue my traffic, unti… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: I will not, however, stop there, but still continue my traffic, until I have got together an hundred thousand drachmas. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Alnaschar., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 21

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I will not, however, stop there, but still continue my traffic, until I have got together an hundred thousand drachmas.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not stop, continue, get together · **To what, where:** traffic, thousand drachmas

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Alnaschar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg62868:16:21
# text = I will not, however, stop there, but still continue my traffic, until I have got together an hundred thousand drachmas.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	continue	continue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	parataxis	_	_
20	together	together	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	compound	_	_
23	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	drachmas	drachma	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stop** | future | I |  |  | there |  | however *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **continue** | infinitive | I *not said here* | my traffic |  |  | still |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent traffic=Theme |
| 3 | **get together** | present · perfect | I | thousand drachmas |  |  |  | together *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer drachma=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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