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title: I remembered these enjoyments with regret; and while I was sighing i… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: I remembered these enjoyments with regret; and while I was sighing in the midst of superfluities, which though they encumbered life, yet I could not give up, they were suddenly taken away. Who acts: I, enjoyments. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 20

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I remembered these enjoyments with regret; and while I was sighing in the midst of superfluities, which though they encumbered life, yet I could not give up, they were suddenly taken away.

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**Who acts:** I, enjoyments · **What happens:** remember, sigh, encumber, not give up, take away · **To what, where:** enjoyments, superfluities

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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, enjoyments), 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:pg62868:8:20
# text = I remembered these enjoyments with regret; and while I was sighing in the midst of superfluities, which though they encumbered life, yet I could not give up, they were suddenly taken away.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	enjoyments	enjoyment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	regret	regret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	sighing	sigh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	superfluities	superfluity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
20	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	encumbered	encumber	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
23	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
34	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	advcl	_	_
36	away	away	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | past | I | this enjoyments |  |  |  | with regret | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent enjoyment=Theme |
| 2 | **sigh** | past · progressive | I |  |  |  |  | in the midst of superfluities | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in midst=Theme |
| 3 | **encumber** | past | enjoyments *= enjoyment* | superfluities |  |  |  | life *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **give up** | could | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **take away** | past · passive |  | enjoyments *= enjoyment* |  |  |  | away, suddenly *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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