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title: When he arrived at Magrebi, his first care was to enquire in what ho… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: When he arrived at Magrebi, his first care was to enquire in what house, or in what convent, Abounadar lodged; he was so well known that every body told him his habitation. Who acts: thing, first care, Abounadar, body. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Ingr
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 32

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When he arrived at Magrebi, his first care was to enquire in what house, or in what convent, Abounadar lodged; he was so well known that every body told him his habitation.

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**Who acts:** thing, first care, Abounadar, body · **What happens:** arrive, be, lodge, know, tell, care · **To what, where:** Magrebi, house, convent, thing, habitation · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Ingratitude Punished.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, first care, Abounadar, body), 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:pg62868:22:32
# text = When he arrived at Magrebi, his first care was to enquire in what house, or in what convent, Abounadar lodged; he was so well known that every body told him his habitation.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Magrebi	Magrebi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	enquire	enquire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	20	det	_	_
20	convent	convent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	Abounadar	Abounadar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	lodged	lodge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
29	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	iobj	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	habitation	habitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | thing |  |  | Magrebi |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | thing's first care |  |  | house |  | enquire *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lodge** | past | Abounadar |  |  | what convent |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in convent=Location |
| 4 | **know** | past · passive |  | thing |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | every body | thing's habitation | thing |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient habitation=Topic |
| 6 | **care** |  | thing |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act 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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