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title: Who were the persons that lodged in this house when it was first bui… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Who were the persons that lodged in this house when it was first built? Who acts: persons. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Story of a Dervise., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of a Dervise., sentence 8

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Who were the persons that lodged in this house when it was first built?

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**Who acts:** persons · **What happens:** be, lodge, build · **To what, where:** persons, house

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Story of a Dervise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (persons), 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:pg62868:9:8
# text = Who were the persons that lodged in this house when it was first built?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lodged	lodge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	advmod	_	_
14	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the persons |  |  |  | Who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lodge** | past | the persons |  |  | this house |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
| 3 | **build** | past · passive |  | house |  |  |  | first *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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