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title: Omar regarded him with attention, and perceived that his looks were… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Omar regarded him with attention, and perceived that his looks were wild and haggard, and that his body was feeble and emaciated: the man also seemed to gaze stedfastly on Omar; but such was the abstraction of his mind, that his eye did not immediately take cognizance of its object. Who acts: Omar, 
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 2

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Omar regarded him with attention, and perceived that his looks were wild and haggard, and that his body was feeble and emaciated: the man also seemed to gaze stedfastly on Omar; but such was the abstraction of his mind, that his eye did not immediately take cognizance of its object.

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**Who acts:** Omar, looks, body, man, eye · **What happens:** regard, perceive, be, emaciate, seem, gaze · **To what, where:** man, such abstraction, cognizance, object

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Omar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Omar, looks, body, man), 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:pg62868:7:2
# text = Omar regarded him with attention, and perceived that his looks were wild and haggard, and that his body was feeble and emaciated: the man also seemed to gaze stedfastly on Omar; but such was the abstraction of his mind, that his eye did not immediately take cognizance of its object.
1	Omar	Omar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	regarded	regard	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	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	looks	look	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	haggard	haggard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	feeble	feeble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	emaciated	emaciate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	also	also	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	gaze	gaze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	stedfastly	stedfastly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Omar	Omar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	abstraction	abstraction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
45	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
48	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
49	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	51	advmod	_	_
50	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
52	cognizance	cognizance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **regard** | past | Omar | man |  |  |  | with attention | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **perceive** | past | Omar *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | Omar's looks |  |  |  |  | haggard *conj*; wild *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | Omar's body |  |  |  |  | feeble *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **emaciate** | participle | Omar's body *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **seem** | past | the man |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 7 | **gaze** | to-infinitive | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on Omar; stedfastly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on omar=Theme |
| 8 | **is a** | past |  | the such abstraction |  |  |  | of Omar's mind | tree rules |
| 9 | **not** **take** | past · do-support | Omar's eye | cognizance of eye's object |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cognizance=Theme |
| 10 | **mind** |  | Omar |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 11 | **cognize** |  |  | eye's object |  |  |  |  | nom cognizance «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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