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title: He saw, on his right hand, a grove that seemed to wave its shades as… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: He saw, on his right hand, a grove that seemed to wave its shades as a sign of invitation; he entered it, and found the coolness and verdure irresistibly pleasant. Who acts: Obidah, grove, hand. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Obidah., with i
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 5

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He saw, on his right hand, a grove that seemed to wave its shades as a sign of invitation; he entered it, and found the coolness and verdure irresistibly pleasant.

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**Who acts:** Obidah, grove, hand · **What happens:** see, seem, wave, enter, find, shade · **To what, where:** right hand, shades, hand, coolness, invitation

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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, grove, hand), 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:pg62868:21:5
# text = He saw, on his right hand, a grove that seemed to wave its shades as a sign of invitation; he entered it, and found the coolness and verdure irresistibly pleasant.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	grove	grove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	wave	wave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	shades	shade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	invitation	invitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	coolness	coolness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	verdure	verdure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	irresistibly	irresistibly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Obidah | Obidah's right hand |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus |
| 2 | **seem** | past | a grove |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **wave** | to-infinitive | a grove *not said here* | hand's shades |  |  |  | as a sign of invitation | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shade=Patient |
| 4 | **enter** | past | Obidah | hand |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination |
| 5 | **find** | past | Obidah *not said here* | the coolness and verdure |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coolness=Topic |
| 6 | **shade** |  | hand |  |  |  |  |  | nom shade «state transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **sign** |  |  | invitation |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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