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title: By degrees we let fall the remembrance of our original intention, an… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: By degrees we let fall the remembrance of our original intention, and quit the only adequate object of rational desire. Who acts: we, our. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Obidah., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 36

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By degrees we let fall the remembrance of our original intention, and quit the only adequate object of rational desire.

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**Who acts:** we, our · **What happens:** let, fall, quit, remember, intend · **To what, where:** remembrance, only adequate object, original intention

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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, our), 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:pg62868:21:36
# text = By degrees we let fall the remembrance of our original intention, and quit the only adequate object of rational desire.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	intention	intention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	quit	quit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	adequate	adequate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	rational	rational	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | past | we |  |  |  |  | by degrees | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | infinitive | we *not said here* | the remembrance of our original intention |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient remembrance=Result |
| 3 | **quit** | past | we *not said here* | the only adequate object of rational desire |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=Source |
| 4 | **remember** |  |  | our original intention |  |  |  |  | nom remembrance «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **intend** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=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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