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title: Having thus calmed his solicitude, he renewed his pace, though he su… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Having thus calmed his solicitude, he renewed his pace, though he suspected that he was not gaining ground. 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 clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 10

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Having thus calmed his solicitude, he renewed his pace, though he suspected that he was not gaining ground.

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**Who acts:** Obidah · **What happens:** have, calm, renew, suspect, not gain · **To what, where:** solicitude, pace, ground

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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:pg62868:21:10
# text = Having thus calmed his solicitude, he renewed his pace, though he suspected that he was not gaining ground.
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	calmed	calm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	solicitude	solicitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	renewed	renew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	pace	pace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	suspected	suspect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	gaining	gain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
20	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | Obidah *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **calm** | participle | Obidah *not said here* | Obidah's solicitude |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus solicitude=Experiencer |
| 3 | **renew** | past | Obidah | Obidah's pace |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pace=Patient |
| 4 | **suspect** | past | Obidah |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **gain** | past · progressive | Obidah | ground |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Theme |

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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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