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title: His warehouses were filled with all the commodities of the remotest… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: His warehouses were filled with all the commodities of the remotest nations; every rarity of nature, every curiosity of art, whatever was useful, hastened to his hand. Who acts: whatever. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almamoulin., with its 
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 2

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His warehouses were filled with all the commodities of the remotest nations; every rarity of nature, every curiosity of art, whatever was useful, hastened to his hand.

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**Who acts:** whatever · **What happens:** fill, be, hasten · **To what, where:** warehouses, hand

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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 (whatever), 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:pg62868:18:2
# text = His warehouses were filled with all the commodities of the remotest nations; every rarity of nature, every curiosity of art, whatever was useful, hastened to his hand.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	warehouses	warehouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	commodities	commodity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	remotest	remote	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	rarity	rarity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | past · passive |  | India's warehouses |  |  |  | with all commodities of the remotest nations; every rarity of nature and every curiosity of art *obl* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with commodity=Instrument |
| 2 | **is** | past | whatever |  |  |  |  | useful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hasten** | participle | whatever *not said here* |  |  | India's hand |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hand=Destination |

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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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