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title: We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury, and… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury, and rove through the labyrinths of inconstancy, till the darkness of old age begins to invade us, and disease and anxiety obstruct our way. Who acts: We, darkness, disease. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» 
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 37

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We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury, and rove through the labyrinths of inconstancy, till the darkness of old age begins to invade us, and disease and anxiety obstruct our way.

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**Who acts:** We, darkness, disease · **What happens:** entangle, immerge, reeve, begin, invade, obstruct · **To what, where:** ourselves, luxury, labyrinths, us, way

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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, darkness, disease), 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:pg62868:21:37
# text = We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury, and rove through the labyrinths of inconstancy, till the darkness of old age begins to invade us, and disease and anxiety obstruct our way.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	entangle	entangle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	immerge	immerge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	luxury	luxury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	rove	reeve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	labyrinths	labyrinth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	inconstancy	inconstancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	till	till	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
26	begins	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	invade	invade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	obstruct	obstruct	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
36	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **entangle** | present | We | ourselves |  |  |  | in business | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent ourselves=Destination in business=Theme |
| 2 | **immerge** | infinitive | We *not said here* | ourselves |  | luxury |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **reeve** | past | We *not said here* |  |  | the labyrinths of inconstancy | till the darkness |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **begin** | present | the darkness *not said here* |  |  |  | of old age |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **invade** | to-infinitive | the darkness *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **obstruct** | present | disease and anxiety | our way |  |  |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer way=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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