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title: The sound of the flute, and the voice of the singer, chased away sad… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: The sound of the flute, and the voice of the singer, chased away sadness; every hour was crowded with pleasure; and the day ended and began with feasts and dances, and revelry and merriment. Who acts: voice, hour, day. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The 
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 27

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The sound of the flute, and the voice of the singer, chased away sadness; every hour was crowded with pleasure; and the day ended and began with feasts and dances, and revelry and merriment.

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**Who acts:** voice, hour, day · **What happens:** chase away, be, end, begin · **To what, where:** sadness, revelry, sound

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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 (voice, hour, day), 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:pg62868:18:27
# text = The sound of the flute, and the voice of the singer, chased away sadness; every hour was crowded with pleasure; and the day ended and began with feasts and dances, and revelry and merriment.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	singer	singer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	chased	chase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	sadness	sadness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	crowded	crowded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	feasts	feast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	dances	dance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	revelry	revelry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	merriment	merriment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase away** | participle | the voice of the singer *not said here* | sadness |  |  |  | away *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sadness=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | every hour |  |  |  |  | with pleasure; crowded *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **end** | past | the day | revelry and merriment |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **begin** | past | the day *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with feasts and dances | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with feast=Subeventuality |

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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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