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title: When the repast was over, “Tell me,” said the hermit, “by what chanc… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: When the repast was over, “Tell me,” said the hermit, “by what chance thou hast been brought hither; I have been now twenty years an inhabitant of the wilderness, in which I never saw a man before.” Who acts: repast, hermit. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 26

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When the repast was over, “Tell me,” said the hermit, “by what chance thou hast been brought hither; I have been now twenty years an inhabitant of the wilderness, in which I never saw a man before.”

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**Who acts:** repast, hermit · **What happens:** be, tell, say, bring, not see · **To what, where:** hermit, chance, twenty years, man, inhabitant · **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 (repast, hermit), 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:pg62868:21:26
# text = When the repast was over, “Tell me,” said the hermit, “by what chance thou hast been brought hither; I have been now twenty years an inhabitant of the wilderness, in which I never saw a man before.”
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	repast	repast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	ccomp	_	_
19	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	cop	_	_
29	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
30	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	inhabitant	inhabitant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	obl	_	_
40	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	before	before	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	44	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the repast |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | the hermit *= hermit* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the hermit |  |  |  |  | what *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **bring** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | chance |  |  |  | thou *nsubj:pass*; hither *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the hermit *= hermit* | twenty years |  |  | now | a inhabitant of the wilderness *appos* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | past | the hermit *= hermit* | a man |  | a inhabitant of the wilderness |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |

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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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