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title: The Genius then retired towards the river, and the two shepherds sto… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: The Genius then retired towards the river, and the two shepherds stood waiting the event. Who acts: Genius, two shepherds. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Hamet and Raschid., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Hamet and Raschid., sentence 17

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The Genius then retired towards the river, and the two shepherds stood waiting the event.

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**Who acts:** Genius, two shepherds · **What happens:** retire, stand, wait · **To what, where:** event

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Hamet and Raschid.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Genius, two shepherds), 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:pg62868:5:17
# text = The Genius then retired towards the river, and the two shepherds stood waiting the event.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Genius	Genius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	retired	retire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retire** | past | the Genius |  |  |  | then | towards the river | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the two shepherds |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **wait** | gerund | the two shepherds *not said here* | the event |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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