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title: The two next nights he spent in visiting the tower and the caverns,… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: The two next nights he spent in visiting the tower and the caverns, and found the treasures greater to his eye than to his imagination. Who acts: two next nights, Almamoulin. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almamoulin., with its dependency tr
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 10

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The two next nights he spent in visiting the tower and the caverns, and found the treasures greater to his eye than to his imagination.

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**Who acts:** two next nights, Almamoulin · **What happens:** spend, visit, find, imagine · **To what, where:** tower

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almamoulin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two next nights, Almamoulin), 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:pg62868:18:10
# text = The two next nights he spent in visiting the tower and the caverns, and found the treasures greater to his eye than to his imagination.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	visiting	visit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	caverns	cavern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	ccomp	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	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 | **spend** | past | the two next nights |  |  |  |  | Almamoulin *nsubj* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **visit** | gerund | the two next nights *not said here* | the tower and the caverns |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **find** | past | the two next nights *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **imagine** |  | Almamoulin |  |  |  |  |  | nom imagination «cognition transitive»: poss=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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