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title: I followed Almalic to the caravansary in which he lodged; and after… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: I followed Almalic to the caravansary in which he lodged; and after he had fulfilled his vows, he took me with him to Medina. Who acts: I, Almalic. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Omar., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 17

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I followed Almalic to the caravansary in which he lodged; and after he had fulfilled his vows, he took me with him to Medina.

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**Who acts:** I, Almalic · **What happens:** follow, lodge, fulfil, take, vow · **To what, where:** Almalic, caravansary, vows, me

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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, Almalic), 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:pg62868:8:17
# text = I followed Almalic to the caravansary in which he lodged; and after he had fulfilled his vows, he took me with him to Medina.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Almalic	Almalic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	caravansary	caravansary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lodged	lodge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	vows	vow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Medina	Medina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | I | Almalic |  | the caravansary |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent almalic=Theme to caravansary=Trajectory |
| 2 | **lodge** | past | Almalic |  |  | the caravansary |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
| 3 | **fulfil** | past · perfect | Almalic | Almalic's vows |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | past | Almalic |  | me |  |  | with heart; to Medina | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to medina=Destination |
| 5 | **vow** |  | Almalic |  |  |  |  |  | nom vow «communication 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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