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title: At this moment I was driven by some secret and irresistible power th… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: At this moment I was driven by some secret and irresistible power through the glowing system of creation, and passed innumerable worlds in a moment. Who acts: secret power. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Carazan., with its dependency tree an
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 22

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At this moment I was driven by some secret and irresistible power through the glowing system of creation, and passed innumerable worlds in a moment.

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**Who acts:** secret power · **What happens:** drive, glow, pass · **To what, where:** I, glowing system, innumerable worlds

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Carazan.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (secret power), 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:pg62868:17:22
# text = At this moment I was driven by some secret and irresistible power through the glowing system of creation, and passed innumerable worlds in a moment.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
9	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	irresistible	irresistible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	creation	creation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
22	innumerable	innumerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	worlds	world	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | past · passive | some secret power | I |  | the glowing system of creation | moment |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme through system=Trajectory |
| 2 | **glow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pass** | past | some secret power *not said here* | innumerable worlds |  |  | moment |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme world=Trajectory |

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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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