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title: These ideas determined him, at length, to make all possible attempts… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: These ideas determined him, at length, to make all possible attempts to seize upon the candlestick. Who acts: ideas. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Ingratitude Punished., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 58

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These ideas determined him, at length, to make all possible attempts to seize upon the candlestick.

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**Who acts:** ideas · **What happens:** determine, make, seize · **To what, where:** Abounadar, length, possible attempts

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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 (ideas), 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:pg62868:22:58
# text = These ideas determined him, at length, to make all possible attempts to seize upon the candlestick.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
12	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	attempts	attempt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	candlestick	candlestick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | past | this ideas | Abounadar |  | length |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | all possible attempts |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset attempt=Product |
| 3 | **seize** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | upon the candlestick | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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