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title: He therefore returned to Samarcand, and set open his doors to those… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: He therefore returned to Samarcand, and set open his doors to those whom idleness sends out in search of pleasure. Who acts: Almamoulin, idleness. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almamoulin., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 25

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He therefore returned to Samarcand, and set open his doors to those whom idleness sends out in search of pleasure.

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**Who acts:** Almamoulin, idleness · **What happens:** return, set, send out, search · **To what, where:** Samarcand, open doors, search, pleasure

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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, idleness), 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:pg62868:18:25
# text = He therefore returned to Samarcand, and set open his doors to those whom idleness sends out in search of pleasure.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Samarcand	Samarcand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	obl	_	_
14	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
15	idleness	idleness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | Almamoulin |  | Samarcand |  |  | therefore *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to samarcand=Result |
| 2 | **set** | past | Almamoulin *not said here* | Almamoulin's open doors |  |  |  | to those | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient door=Result |
| 3 | **send out** | present | idleness |  |  | search of pleasure |  | whom *obj* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent whom=Theme in search=Destination |
| 4 | **search** |  |  | pleasure |  |  |  |  | nom search «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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