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title: Almamoulin, who loved his father, was touched a while with honest so… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Almamoulin, who loved his father, was touched a while with honest sorrow, and sat two hours in profound meditation, without perusing the paper which he held in his hand. Who acts: Almamoulin, paper. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almamoulin.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 7

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Almamoulin, who loved his father, was touched a while with honest sorrow, and sat two hours in profound meditation, without perusing the paper which he held in his hand.

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**Who acts:** Almamoulin, paper · **What happens:** love, touch, sit, peruse, hold · **To what, where:** father, profound meditation, paper, hand

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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, paper), 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:pg62868:18:7
# text = Almamoulin, who loved his father, was touched a while with honest sorrow, and sat two hours in profound meditation, without perusing the paper which he held in his hand.
1	Almamoulin	Almamoulin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	profound	profound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	meditation	meditation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	perusing	peruse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | Almamoulin | Almamoulin's father |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus |
| 2 | **touch** | past · passive | Almamoulin *not said here* |  |  |  | while | with honest sorrow | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **sit** | past | Almamoulin *not said here* |  |  | profound meditation | hour |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in meditation=Location |
| 4 | **peruse** | gerund | Almamoulin *not said here* | the paper |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Theme |
| 5 | **hold** | past | the paper |  |  | Almamoulin's hand |  | Almamoulin *nsubj* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location |

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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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