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title: Thus forlorn and distressed, he wandered through the wild, without k… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus forlorn and distressed, he wandered through the wild, without knowing whither he was going, or whether he was every moment drawing nearer to safety or to destruction. Who acts: Work, moment. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Obidah., with 
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 22

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Thus forlorn and distressed, he wandered through the wild, without knowing whither he was going, or whether he was every moment drawing nearer to safety or to destruction.

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**Who acts:** Work, moment · **What happens:** distress, wander, know, go, be, draw · **To what, where:** wild, moment · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Work, moment), 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:pg62868:21:22
# text = Thus forlorn and distressed, he wandered through the wild, without knowing whither he was going, or whether he was every moment drawing nearer to safety or to destruction.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	forlorn	forlorn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	distressed	distress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
14	whither	whither	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
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	_	_
17	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
25	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	xcomp	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **distress** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **wander** | past | Work |  |  | the wild |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wild=Trajectory |
| 3 | **know** | gerund | Work *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **go** | past · progressive | Work |  |  |  |  | whither *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | past | Work | every moment |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **draw** | gerund | every moment *not said here* |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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