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title: He bought another, and arrived without any obstacle at his mother’s,… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: He bought another, and arrived without any obstacle at his mother’s, whom he would scarcely look upon, so much was he taken up with his treasure. Who acts: Abounadar. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Ingratitude Punished., with its dependency tree and the 
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 63

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He bought another, and arrived without any obstacle at his mother’s, whom he would scarcely look upon, so much was he taken up with his treasure.

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**Who acts:** Abounadar · **What happens:** buy, arrive, look, take up, treasure · **To what, where:** another, Abounadar

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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 (Abounadar), 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:pg62868:22:63
# text = He bought another, and arrived without any obstacle at his mother’s, whom he would scarcely look upon, so much was he taken up with his treasure.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	obstacle	obstacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	conj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	much	much	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | past | Abounadar | another |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Theme |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | Abounadar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without any obstacle; at Abounadar's mother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | would | Abounadar |  |  |  |  | scarcely *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **take up** | past · passive |  | Abounadar |  |  |  | with Abounadar's treasure | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
| 5 | **treasure** |  | Abounadar |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: 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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