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title: Or, if I had been condemned to reside in a comet, that would return… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Or, if I had been condemned to reside in a comet, that would return but once in a thousand years to their regions of light and life; the hope of these periods, however distant, would cheer men in the dread interval of cold and darkness, and the vicissitude would divide eternity into time.” Who acts:
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 25

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Or, if I had been condemned to reside in a comet, that would return but once in a thousand years to their regions of light and life; the hope of these periods, however distant, would cheer men in the dread interval of cold and darkness, and the vicissitude would divide eternity into time.”

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**Who acts:** that, vicissitude, periods · **What happens:** condemn, reside, return, cheer, divide, hope · **To what, where:** I, comet, hope, men, dread interval, eternity

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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 (that, vicissitude, periods), 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:pg62868:17:25
# text = Or, if I had been condemned to reside in a comet, that would return but once in a thousand years to their regions of light and life; the hope of these periods, however distant, would cheer men in the dread interval of cold and darkness, and the vicissitude would divide eternity into time.”
1	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	condemned	condemn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	reside	reside	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	comet	comet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	16	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
35	periods	period	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	however	however	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	cheer	cheer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
42	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	dread	dread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	interval	interval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	nmod	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	vicissitude	vicissitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
55	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
56	divide	divide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
57	eternity	eternity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	_
58	into	into	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **condemn** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **reside** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | a comet |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in comet=Location |
| 3 | **return** | would | that | the hope of this periods |  |  | year | to receptacle's regions of light and life *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to region=Result |
| 4 | **cheer** | would | that *not said here* | men |  | the dread interval of cold and darkness |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer |
| 5 | **divide** | would | the vicissitude | eternity |  |  | time |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eternity=Theme |
| 6 | **hope** |  | this periods |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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