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title: He then contracted his desires to more private and domestic pleasures. — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: He then contracted his desires to more private and domestic pleasures. Who acts: Almamoulin. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almamoulin., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 22

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He then contracted his desires to more private and domestic pleasures.

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**Who acts:** Almamoulin · **What happens:** contract, desire · **To what, where:** desires

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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), 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:pg62868:18:22
# text = He then contracted his desires to more private and domestic pleasures.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	contracted	contract	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	desires	desire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
8	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	pleasures	pleasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contract** | past | Almamoulin | Almamoulin's desires |  |  | then | to more private pleasures *result* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent desire=Patient to pleasure=Result |
| 2 | **desire** |  | Almamoulin |  |  |  |  |  | nom desire «feeling 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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