--- title: He then retired to his own chamber, as overborn with affliction, and… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics description: He then retired to his own chamber, as overborn with affliction, and there read the inventory of his new possessions, which swelled his heart with such transports, that he no longer lamented his father’s death. Who acts: Almamoulin, new possessions, father. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Almamoulin, new possessions, father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62868:18:8 # text = He then retired to his own chamber, as overborn with affliction, and there read the inventory of his new possessions, which swelled his heart with such transports, that he no longer lamented his father’s death. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 3 retired retire VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 chamber chamber NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 overborn overborn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 affliction affliction NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 16 expl _ _ 16 read read VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 inventory inventory NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 possessions possession NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 swelled swell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 transports transport NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 no no ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 36 advmod _ _ 36 lamented lament VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ’s 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **retire** | past | Almamoulin | | | | then | to Almamoulin's own chamber | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **read** | past | | the inventory of Almamoulin's new possessions | | there | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inventory=Topic | | 3 | **swell** | past | Almamoulin's new possessions | Almamoulin's heart | | | | with such transports | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient heart=Extent | | 4 | **lament** | past | Almamoulin | Almamoulin's father's death | | | | long *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer death=Stimulus | | 5 | **possess** | | Almamoulin | | | | | | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **die** | | Almamoulin's father | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/18/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/18/9/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Almamoulin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/18/)