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title: He listened to every echo, he mounted every hill for a fresh prospec… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: He listened to every echo, he mounted every hill for a fresh prospect, he turned aside to every cascade, and pleased himself with tracing the course of a gentle river that rolled among the trees, and watered a large region with innumerable circumvolutions. Who acts: Obidah, gentle river. A sentence 
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 12

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He listened to every echo, he mounted every hill for a fresh prospect, he turned aside to every cascade, and pleased himself with tracing the course of a gentle river that rolled among the trees, and watered a large region with innumerable circumvolutions.

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**Who acts:** Obidah, gentle river · **What happens:** listen, mount, turn, trace, roll, water · **To what, where:** hill, cascade, course, trees, large region

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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, gentle river), 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:pg62868:21:12
# text = He listened to every echo, he mounted every hill for a fresh prospect, he turned aside to every cascade, and pleased himself with tracing the course of a gentle river that rolled among the trees, and watered a large region with innumerable circumvolutions.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	echo	echo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	prospect	prospect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	cascade	cascade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
25	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	nsubj	_	_
26	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	tracing	trace	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	among	among	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	watered	water	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	innumerable	innumerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	circumvolutions	circumvolution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | past | Obidah |  |  |  |  | to every echo | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to echo=Theme |
| 2 | **mount** | past | Obidah | every hill |  |  |  | for a fresh prospect | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Patient |
| 3 | **turn** | past | Obidah |  |  | every cascade |  | aside *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to cascade=Trajectory |
| 4 | **trace** | gerund | Obidah *not said here* | the course of a gentle river |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Theme |
| 5 | **roll** | past | a gentle river |  |  | the trees |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tree=Trajectory |
| 6 | **water** | past | Obidah *not said here* | a large region |  |  |  | with innumerable circumvolutions | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent region=Destination with circumvolution=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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