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title: Bozaldab, in the distraction of grief and despair, refused to return… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Bozaldab, in the distraction of grief and despair, refused to return to his palace, and retired to the gloomiest grotto in the neighbouring mountain: he there rolled himself on the dust, tore away the hairs of his hoary beard, and dashed the cup of consolation that Patience offered him to the ground
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 2

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Bozaldab, in the distraction of grief and despair, refused to return to his palace, and retired to the gloomiest grotto in the neighbouring mountain: he there rolled himself on the dust, tore away the hairs of his hoary beard, and dashed the cup of consolation that Patience offered him to the ground.

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**Who acts:** Bozaldab, son, Patience · **What happens:** refuse, not return, retire, neighbour, roll, dash · **To what, where:** son, dust, cup, ground, grief

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Bozaldab.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bozaldab, son, Patience), 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:pg62868:19:2
# text = Bozaldab, in the distraction of grief and despair, refused to return to his palace, and retired to the gloomiest grotto in the neighbouring mountain: he there rolled himself on the dust, tore away the hairs of his hoary beard, and dashed the cup of consolation that Patience offered him to the ground.
1	Bozaldab	Bozaldab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	distraction	distraction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	retired	retire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	gloomiest	gloomy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
23	grotto	grotto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	amod	_	_
27	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
31	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
32	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	31	obj	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	tore	tore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
38	away	away	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	hairs	hair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	hoary	hoary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	dashed	dash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	consolation	consolation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	_
52	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
53	Patience	Patience	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
54	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	advcl	_	_
55	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	iobj	_	_
56	to	to	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | past | Bozaldab |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **return** | to-infinitive | Bozaldab *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to son's palace *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result |
| 3 | **retire** | participle | Bozaldab *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the gloomiest grotto in the neighbouring mountain | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **neighbour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **roll** | past | son | son |  | the dust and tore; there |  | the hairs of son's hoary beard *obj*; away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent himself=Theme hair=Result |
| 6 | **dash** | past | son *not said here* | the cup of consolation |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Patient |
| 7 | **offer** | past | Patience |  | son |  |  | to the ground *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent he=Theme to ground=Goal |
| 8 | **distract** |  |  | grief and despair |  |  |  |  | nom distraction «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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