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title: He was fresh and vigourous with rest; he was animated with hope; he… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: He was fresh and vigourous with rest; he was animated with hope; he was incited by desire; he walked swiftly forward over the vallies, and saw the hills gradually rising before him. Who acts: Obidah, desire, hills. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Stor
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 2

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He was fresh and vigourous with rest; he was animated with hope; he was incited by desire; he walked swiftly forward over the vallies, and saw the hills gradually rising before him.

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**Who acts:** Obidah, desire, hills · **What happens:** be, incite, walk, see, rise · **To what, where:** Obidah, vallies, hills

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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, desire, hills), 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:pg62868:21:2
# text = He was fresh and vigourous with rest; he was animated with hope; he was incited by desire; he walked swiftly forward over the vallies, and saw the hills gradually rising before him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	vigourous	vigourous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	animated	animated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	incited	incite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	over	over	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	vallies	vally	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	xcomp	_	_
35	before	before	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	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 | **is** | past | Obidah |  |  |  |  | fresh *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Obidah *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with rest | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Obidah |  |  |  |  | with hope; animated *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **incite** | past · passive | desire | Obidah |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient |
| 5 | **walk** | past | Obidah |  |  | the vallies |  | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over vally=Trajectory |
| 6 | **see** | past | Obidah *not said here* | the hills |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **rise** | gerund | the hills *not said here* |  |  |  | before Obidah | gradually *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location |

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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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