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title: While this thought passed over my mind, I lost sight of the remotest… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: While this thought passed over my mind, I lost sight of the remotest star, and the last glimmering of light was quenched in utter darkness. Who acts: thought, I, my. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Carazan., with its dependency tree and the p
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 26

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While this thought passed over my mind, I lost sight of the remotest star, and the last glimmering of light was quenched in utter darkness.

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**Who acts:** thought, I, my · **What happens:** pass, lose, quench, mind, sight · **To what, where:** mind, sight, last glimmering, utter darkness, remotest star

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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 (thought, I, my), 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:pg62868:17:26
# text = While this thought passed over my mind, I lost sight of the remotest star, and the last glimmering of light was quenched in utter darkness.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	remotest	remote	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	glimmering	glimmering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	quenched	quench	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	utter	utter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | this thought |  |  | my mind |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over mind=Location |
| 2 | **lose** | past | I | sight of the remotest star |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality |
| 3 | **quench** | past · passive |  | the last glimmering of light |  | utter darkness |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 4 | **mind** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **sight** |  |  | the remotest star |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition 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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