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title: The streets were crowded with his carriages; the sea was covered wit… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: The streets were crowded with his carriages; the sea was covered with his ships; the streams of Oxus were wearied with conveyance, and every breeze of the sky wafted wealth to Nouradin. Who acts: streets, breeze, sky. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The S
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 3

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The streets were crowded with his carriages; the sea was covered with his ships; the streams of Oxus were wearied with conveyance, and every breeze of the sky wafted wealth to Nouradin.

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**Who acts:** streets, breeze, sky · **What happens:** be, cover, weary, waft, breeze · **To what, where:** sea, streams, wealth, Nouradin

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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 (streets, breeze, sky), 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:pg62868:18:3
# text = The streets were crowded with his carriages; the sea was covered with his ships; the streams of Oxus were wearied with conveyance, and every breeze of the sky wafted wealth to Nouradin.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	crowded	crowded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	carriages	carriage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	streams	stream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Oxus	Oxus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	wearied	weary	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	conveyance	conveyance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	wafted	waft	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
33	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Nouradin	Nouradin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the streets |  |  |  |  | with India's carriages; crowded *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cover** | past · passive |  | the sea |  |  |  | with India's ships | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with ship=Theme |
| 3 | **weary** | past · passive |  | the streams of Oxus |  |  |  | with conveyance | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 4 | **waft** | past | every breeze of the sky | wealth | Nouradin |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wealth=Theme |
| 5 | **breeze** |  | the sky |  |  |  |  |  | nom breeze «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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