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title: He desired him to leave his house, and, without giving him any thing… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: He desired him to leave his house, and, without giving him any thing for his support, turned him loose into the wide world. Who acts: elder. 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 c
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Merchant and His Sons., sentence 4

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He desired him to leave his house, and, without giving him any thing for his support, turned him loose into the wide world.

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**Who acts:** elder · **What happens:** desire, leave, give, turn, support · **To what, where:** gentleman, house, thing, elder, wide world

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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 (elder), 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:pg62868:2:4
# text = He desired him to leave his house, and, without giving him any thing for his support, turned him loose into the wide world.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
20	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	loose	loose	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **desire** | past | elder | gentleman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | elder *not said here* | elder's house |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | gerund |  | any thing | elder |  |  | for elder's support | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient thing=Theme for support=Asset |
| 4 | **turn** | past | elder *not said here* | elder |  | the wide world |  | loose *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme into world=Trajectory |
| 5 | **support** |  | elder |  |  |  |  |  | nom support «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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