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title: He now resolved to do what remained yet in his power, to tread back… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: He now resolved to do what remained yet in his power, to tread back the ground which he had passed, and try to find some issue where the wood might open into the plain. Who acts: Obidah, wood. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Obidah., with its
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 18

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He now resolved to do what remained yet in his power, to tread back the ground which he had passed, and try to find some issue where the wood might open into the plain.

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**Who acts:** Obidah, wood · **What happens:** resolve, do, remain, tread back, pass, try · **To what, where:** power, ground, issue, plain

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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, wood), 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:pg62868:21:18
# text = He now resolved to do what remained yet in his power, to tread back the ground which he had passed, and try to find some issue where the wood might open into the plain.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
7	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
8	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	tread	tread	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	issue	issue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	33	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl:relcl	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resolve** | past | Obidah |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | Obidah *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **remain** | past |  |  |  | Obidah's power | yet | what *nsubj* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in power=Location |
| 4 | **tread back** | to-infinitive |  | the ground |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location ground=Theme |
| 5 | **pass** | past · perfect · passive |  | the ground |  |  |  | Obidah *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 6 | **try** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **find** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | some issue |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent issue=Topic |
| 8 | **open** | might | the wood |  |  | the plain |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into plain=Recipient |

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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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