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title: The guests stood awhile aghast, then stole imperceptibly away, and h… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: The guests stood awhile aghast, then stole imperceptibly away, and he was led off without a single voice to witness his integrity. Who acts: guests. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almamoulin., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 31

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The guests stood awhile aghast, then stole imperceptibly away, and he was led off without a single voice to witness his integrity.

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**Who acts:** guests · **What happens:** stand, steal, lead off · **To what, where:** officer

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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 (guests), 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:pg62868:18:31
# text = The guests stood awhile aghast, then stole imperceptibly away, and he was led off without a single voice to witness his integrity.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	awhile	awhile	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	aghast	aghast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	imperceptibly	imperceptibly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	without	without	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	witness	witness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	integrity	integrity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the guests |  |  |  |  | aghast *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **steal** | past |  |  |  |  | then | away *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lead off** | past · passive |  | officer |  |  |  | without a single voice  witness  officer's integrity | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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