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title: Thus he went on till the sun approached his meridian, and the increa… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus he went on till the sun approached his meridian, and the increasing heat preyed upon his strength; he then looked round about him for some more commodious path. Who acts: Obidah, sun, increasing heat. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Obid
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 4

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Thus he went on till the sun approached his meridian, and the increasing heat preyed upon his strength; he then looked round about him for some more commodious path.

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**Who acts:** Obidah, sun, increasing heat · **What happens:** go on, approach, prey, look round · **To what, where:** meridian

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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 (Obidah, sun, increasing heat), 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:pg62868:21:4
# text = Thus he went on till the sun approached his meridian, and the increasing heat preyed upon his strength; he then looked round about him for some more commodious path.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	meridian	meridian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	increasing	increasing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	preyed	prey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
23	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	round	round	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	about	about	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
29	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	_
30	commodious	commodious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past | Obidah |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **approach** | past | the sun | Obidah's meridian |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meridian=Theme |
| 3 | **prey** | past | the increasing heat |  |  |  |  | upon Obidah's strength | tree rules |
| 4 | **look round** | past | Obidah |  |  |  | then | about heat; for some commodious path; round *property* | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Location for path=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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