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title: We then relax our vigour, and resolve no longer to be terrified with… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: We then relax our vigour, and resolve no longer to be terrified with crimes at a distance, but rely upon our own constancy, and venture to approach what we resolve never to touch. Who acts: We. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Obidah., with it
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 31

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We then relax our vigour, and resolve no longer to be terrified with crimes at a distance, but rely upon our own constancy, and venture to approach what we resolve never to touch.

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** relax, resolve, be, rely, venture, approach · **To what, where:** vigour

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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), 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:pg62868:21:31
# text = We then relax our vigour, and resolve no longer to be terrified with crimes at a distance, but rely upon our own constancy, and venture to approach what we resolve never to touch.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	relax	relax	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	vigour	vigour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	resolve	resolve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	no	no	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	crimes	crime	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	rely	rely	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	constancy	constancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	venture	venture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	approach	approach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	30	obj	_	_
32	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	resolve	resolve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	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 | **relax** | present | We | our vigour |  |  | then |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus vigour=Experiencer |
| 2 | **resolve** | infinitive | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with crimes at a distance; terrified *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **rely** | present | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon our own constancy | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **venture** | infinitive | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **approach** | to-infinitive | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 7 | **resolve** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **not** **touch** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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