--- title: Abdallah obeyed him, and examined twelve magazines of great extent,… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics description: Abdallah obeyed him, and examined twelve magazines of great extent, so full of all manner of riches, that he could not distinguish what merited his admiration most; they all deserved it, and produced new desires. Who acts: Abdallah, Abounadar, magazines. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Abdallah, Abounadar, magazines), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62868:22:44 # text = Abdallah obeyed him, and examined twelve magazines of great extent, so full of all manner of riches, that he could not distinguish what merited his admiration most; they all deserved it, and produced new desires. 1 Abdallah Abdallah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 obeyed obey VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 examined examine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 magazines magazine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 extent extent NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 17 det _ _ 17 manner manner NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 riches rich NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 distinguish distinguish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 parataxis _ _ 26 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 27 nsubj _ _ 27 merited merit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 admiration admiration NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 27 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 all all ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 deserved deserve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 produced produce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 39 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 desires desire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **obey** | past | Abdallah | Abounadar | | | | | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 2 | **examine** | past | Abdallah *not said here* | twelve magazines of great extent | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magazine=Theme | | 3 | **not** **distinguish** | could | Abounadar | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **merit** | past | | Abounadar's admiration | | | | what *nsubj* | tree rules | | 5 | **deserve** | past | magazines *= magazine* | admiration | | | | all *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **produce** | past | magazines *= magazine* *not said here* | new desires | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Result | | 7 | **admire** | | Abounadar | | | | | | nom admiration «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/22/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/22/45/) - ↑ back to [Ingratitude Punished.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/22/)