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title: In a short time we remit our fervour, and endeavour to find some mit… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: In a short time we remit our fervour, and endeavour to find some mitigation of our duty, and some more easy means of obtaining the same end. Who acts: we, easy. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Obidah., with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 30

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In a short time we remit our fervour, and endeavour to find some mitigation of our duty, and some more easy means of obtaining the same end.

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**Who acts:** we, easy · **What happens:** remit, find, mean, obtain, mitigate · **To what, where:** fervour, mitigation, same end, duty

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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 (we, easy), 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:pg62868:21:30
# text = In a short time we remit our fervour, and endeavour to find some mitigation of our duty, and some more easy means of obtaining the same end.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	remit	remit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	fervour	fervour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	endeavour	endeavour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	mitigation	mitigation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	nsubj	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	nsubj	_	_
24	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
25	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	obtaining	obtain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remit** | present | we | our fervour |  |  | time | endeavour *conj* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent fervour=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | some mitigation of our duty |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mitigation=Topic |
| 3 | **mean** | present | easy |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **obtain** | gerund | easy *not said here* | the same end |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset end=Theme |
| 5 | **mitigate** |  |  | our duty |  |  |  |  | nom mitigation «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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