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title: As soon as I recovered from the confusion and astonishment in which… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as I recovered from the confusion and astonishment in which the Calif left me, I began to regret that my behaviour had intercepted his bounty; and accused of folly, that cheerfulness which was the concomitant of poverty and labour. Who acts: I, Calif, cheerfulness. A sentence of «Oriental ta
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 22

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As soon as I recovered from the confusion and astonishment in which the Calif left me, I began to regret that my behaviour had intercepted his bounty; and accused of folly, that cheerfulness which was the concomitant of poverty and labour.

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**Who acts:** I, Calif, cheerfulness · **What happens:** recover, leave, begin, regret, intercept, accuse · **To what, where:** confusion, me, astonishment, behaviour, concomitant

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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 (I, Calif, cheerfulness), 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:pg62868:7:22
# text = As soon as I recovered from the confusion and astonishment in which the Calif left me, I began to regret that my behaviour had intercepted his bounty; and accused of folly, that cheerfulness which was the concomitant of poverty and labour.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	recovered	recover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Calif	Calif	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	regret	regret	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	intercepted	intercept	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	bounty	bounty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	accused	accuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	folly	folly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
36	cheerfulness	cheerfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
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	concomitant	concomitant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recover** | past | I |  |  | the confusion and astonishment |  | soon *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from confusion=Source |
| 2 | **leave** | past | the Calif |  | me | astonishment |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme in which=Location |
| 3 | **begin** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **regret** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **intercept** | past · perfect · passive |  | my behaviour |  |  |  | Calif's bounty *obj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **accuse** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of folly and that cheerfulness | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent of folly=Attribute |
| 7 | **is a** | past | that cheerfulness | the concomitant and labour |  |  |  | of poverty; labour *conj* | 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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