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title: At last the green path began to decline from its first tendency, and… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: At last the green path began to decline from its first tendency, and to wind among hills and thickets, cooled with fountains, and murmuring with waterfalls. Who acts: last green path, wind, path. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Obidah., with 
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 8

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At last the green path began to decline from its first tendency, and to wind among hills and thickets, cooled with fountains, and murmuring with waterfalls.

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**Who acts:** last green path, wind, path · **What happens:** begin, decline, cool, murmur, tend · **To what, where:** wind, first tendency, hills

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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 (last green path, wind, path), 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:pg62868:21:8
# text = At last the green path began to decline from its first tendency, and to wind among hills and thickets, cooled with fountains, and murmuring with waterfalls.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	decline	decline	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	tendency	tendency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
17	among	among	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	thickets	thicket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	cooled	cool	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	fountains	fountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	murmuring	murmur	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	waterfalls	waterfall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the last green path | wind among hills and thickets |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **decline** | to-infinitive | the last green path *not said here* |  |  | path's first tendency |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **cool** | participle |  | hills and thickets *not said here* |  |  |  | with fountains | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with fountain=Instrument |
| 4 | **murmur** *speech: other* | gerund | wind among hills and thickets *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with waterfalls | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with waterfall=Theme |
| 5 | **tend** |  | path |  |  |  |  |  | nom tendency «cognition intransitive»: 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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