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title: Almamoulin had been bred to the practice of exact frugality, and had… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Almamoulin had been bred to the practice of exact frugality, and had often looked with envy on the finery and expences of other young men: he therefore believed, that happiness was now in his power, since he could obtain all of which he had hitherto been accustomed to regret the want. Who acts: Alma
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 11

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Almamoulin had been bred to the practice of exact frugality, and had often looked with envy on the finery and expences of other young men: he therefore believed, that happiness was now in his power, since he could obtain all of which he had hitherto been accustomed to regret the want.

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**Who acts:** Almamoulin, happiness · **What happens:** breed, look, believe, be, obtain, accustom · **To what, where:** Almamoulin, power, all, want, exact frugality

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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 (Almamoulin, happiness), 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:pg62868:18:11
# text = Almamoulin had been bred to the practice of exact frugality, and had often looked with envy on the finery and expences of other young men: he therefore believed, that happiness was now in his power, since he could obtain all of which he had hitherto been accustomed to regret the want.
1	Almamoulin	Almamoulin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	bred	breed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	frugality	frugality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	often	often	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	envy	envy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	finery	finery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	expences	expence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
33	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
35	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	advmod	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
44	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	43	obj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nmod	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
48	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
49	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
50	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	51	aux:pass	_	_
51	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	acl:relcl	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	regret	regret	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	xcomp	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **breed** | past · perfect · passive |  | Almamoulin |  |  |  | to the practice of exact frugality | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | with envy on the finery and expences of other young men; often *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **believe** | past | Almamoulin |  |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past | happiness |  |  | Almamoulin's power | now | Almamoulin *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 5 | **obtain** | could | Almamoulin | all |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme |
| 6 | **accustom** | past · perfect · passive |  | Almamoulin |  |  |  | hitherto *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **regret** | to-infinitive |  | the want |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer want=Stimulus |
| 8 | **practice** |  |  | exact frugality |  |  |  |  | nom practice «act 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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