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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 35

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But temptation succeeds temptation, and one compliance prepares us for another; we in time lose the happiness of innocence, and solace our disquiet with sensual gratifications.

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**Who acts:** temptation, one compliance, we · **What happens:** succeed, prepare, lose · **To what, where:** temptation, us, happiness

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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 (temptation, one compliance, 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:pg62868:21:35
# text = But temptation succeeds temptation, and one compliance prepares us for another; we in time lose the happiness of innocence, and solace our disquiet with sensual gratifications.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	temptation	temptation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	succeeds	succeed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	temptation	temptation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	compliance	compliance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	prepares	prepare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	innocence	innocence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	solace	solace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	disquiet	disquiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	sensual	sensual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	gratifications	gratification	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **succeed** | present | temptation | temptation |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **prepare** | present | one compliance | us |  |  |  | for another | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent we=Product for another=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **lose** | present | we | the happiness of innocence |  |  |  | solace *obl* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent happiness=Eventuality |

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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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