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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 28

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I reflected with intolerable anguish, that when ten thousand thousand years had carried me beyond the reach of all but that power who fills infinitude, I should still look forward into an immense abyss of darkness, through which I should still drive without succour and without society, farther and farther still, for ever and for ever.

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**Who acts:** I, power · **What happens:** reflect, carry, fill, look, drive · **To what, where:** that, infinitude

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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 (I, 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:pg62868:17:28
# text = I reflected with intolerable anguish, that when ten thousand thousand years had carried me beyond the reach of all but that power who fills infinitude, I should still look forward into an immense abyss of darkness, through which I should still drive without succour and without society, farther and farther still, for ever and for ever.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	intolerable	intolerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	anguish	anguish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
9	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	compound	_	_
10	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	compound	_	_
11	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	reach	reach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	nmod	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	fills	fill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
26	infinitude	infinitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	still	still	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
32	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	abyss	abyss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
40	through	through	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	45	obl	_	_
42	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
43	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
44	still	still	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
46	without	without	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	succour	succour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
49	without	without	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	society	society	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	45	advmod	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	52	conj	_	_
55	still	still	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
57	for	for	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	45	advmod	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
60	for	for	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	58	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reflect** | past | I |  |  |  |  | with intolerable anguish | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **carry** | past · perfect · passive |  | that |  |  |  | beyond the reach of all; me *obj* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary i=Value |
| 3 | **fill** | present | power | infinitude |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent infinitude=Patient |
| 4 | **look** | should | I |  |  |  | still | into a immense abyss of darkness; forward *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into abyss=Theme |
| 5 | **drive** | should | I |  |  |  | still; still | without succour and society; which *obl*; far *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through which=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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