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title: He readily accepted the proposal, and they lived together with great… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: He readily accepted the proposal, and they lived together with great comfort and happiness till death. Who acts: other, excuses. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Merchant and His Sons., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Merchant and His Sons., sentence 24

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He readily accepted the proposal, and they lived together with great comfort and happiness till death.

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**Who acts:** other, excuses · **What happens:** accept, live together · **To what, where:** proposal

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Merchant and His Sons.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other, excuses), 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:pg62868:2:24
# text = He readily accepted the proposal, and they lived together with great comfort and happiness till death.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	readily	readily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	accepted	accept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	proposal	proposal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	together	together	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	till	till	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accept** | past | other | the proposal |  |  |  | readily *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proposal=Theme |
| 2 | **live together** | past | excuses *= excuse* |  |  |  |  | with great comfort and happiness till death; together *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with comfort=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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