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title: In these amusements the hours passed away unaccounted, his deviation… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: In these amusements the hours passed away unaccounted, his deviations had perplexed his memory, and he knew not towards what point to travel. Who acts: hours, deviations, Obidah. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Obidah., with its dependency tr
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 13

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In these amusements the hours passed away unaccounted, his deviations had perplexed his memory, and he knew not towards what point to travel.

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**Who acts:** hours, deviations, Obidah · **What happens:** pass away, perplex, not know, travel, deviate · **To what, where:** amusements, memory

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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 (hours, deviations, 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:pg62868:21:13
# text = In these amusements the hours passed away unaccounted, his deviations had perplexed his memory, and he knew not towards what point to travel.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	amusements	amusement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	unaccounted	unaccounted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	deviations	deviation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	perplexed	perplex	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
21	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	ccomp	_	_
23	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass away** | past | the hours |  |  | this amusements |  | away, unaccounted *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **perplex** | past · perfect | Obidah's deviations | Obidah's memory |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus memory=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **know** | past | Obidah |  |  |  |  | what  point *ccomp* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **travel** | to-infinitive | Obidah *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **deviate** |  | Obidah |  |  |  |  |  | nom deviation «event intransitive»: 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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