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title: This uneasiness of his mind inclined him to lay hold on every new ob… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: This uneasiness of his mind inclined him to lay hold on every new object, and give way to every sensation that might sooth and divert him. Who acts: uneasiness, sensation. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Obidah., with its dependency tree and 
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 11

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This uneasiness of his mind inclined him to lay hold on every new object, and give way to every sensation that might sooth and divert him.

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**Who acts:** uneasiness, sensation · **What happens:** incline, lay, hold on, give, sooth, divert · **To what, where:** Obidah, new object, way, sensation

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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 (uneasiness, sensation), 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:pg62868:21:11
# text = This uneasiness of his mind inclined him to lay hold on every new object, and give way to every sensation that might sooth and divert him.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	uneasiness	uneasiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	inclined	incline	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
10	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
13	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	sensation	sensation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	sooth	sooth	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	divert	divert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **incline** | past | this uneasiness of uneasiness's mind | Obidah |  |  |  |  | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 2 | **lay** | to-infinitive | this uneasiness of uneasiness's mind *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hold on** | infinitive | this uneasiness of uneasiness's mind *not said here* | every new object |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | infinitive | this uneasiness of uneasiness's mind *not said here* | way | every sensation |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Theme to sensation=Recipient |
| 5 | **sooth** | might | every sensation |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **divert** | infinitive | every sensation *not said here* | Obidah |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 7 | **mind** |  | uneasiness |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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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