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title: The grave lies unseen between us and the object which we reach after… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: The grave lies unseen between us and the object which we reach after: where one man lives to enjoy the good he has in view, ten thousand are cut off in the pursuit of it. Who acts: grave, we, one man, man. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Alna
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 3

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The grave lies unseen between us and the object which we reach after: where one man lives to enjoy the good he has in view, ten thousand are cut off in the pursuit of it.

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**Who acts:** grave, we, one man, man, view · **What happens:** lie, reach, live, enjoy, have, cut off · **To what, where:** object, good, view, ten thousand, pursuit, grave

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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 (grave, we, one man, man), 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:pg62868:16:3
# text = The grave lies unseen between us and the object which we reach after: where one man lives to enjoy the good he has in view, ten thousand are cut off in the pursuit of it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unseen	unseen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	between	between	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	reach	reach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obj	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	compound	_	_
29	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	_
32	off	off	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | the grave |  |  |  |  | between us; unseen *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between we=Location |
| 2 | **reach** | present | we | the object |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 3 | **live** | present | one man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **enjoy** | to-infinitive | one man *not said here* | the good |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer good=Stimulus |
| 5 | **have** | present | man |  |  | view |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **cut off** | present · passive | view *not said here* | ten thousand |  | the pursuit of grave |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 7 | **pursue** |  |  | grave |  |  |  |  | nom pursuit «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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