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title: Obidah, the son of Abensina, left the caravansera early in the morni… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Obidah, the son of Abensina, left the caravansera early in the morning, and pursued his journey through the plains of Indostan. Who acts: Obidah. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Obidah., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 1

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Obidah, the son of Abensina, left the caravansera early in the morning, and pursued his journey through the plains of Indostan.

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**Who acts:** Obidah · **What happens:** leave, pursue, journey · **To what, where:** caravansera, journey, plains

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Obidah.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Obidah), 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:pg62868:21:1
# text = Obidah, the son of Abensina, left the caravansera early in the morning, and pursued his journey through the plains of Indostan.
1	Obidah	Obidah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Abensina	Abensina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	caravansera	caravansera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	pursued	pursue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Indostan	Indostan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | Obidah | the caravansera |  |  | morning | early *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caravansera=Theme |
| 2 | **pursue** | past | Obidah *not said here* | Obidah's journey |  | the plains of Indostan |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent journey=Theme through plain=Trajectory |
| 3 | **journey** |  | Obidah |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «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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