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title: Probably the tales were written down about the time when Edward I. w… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Probably the tales were written down about the time when Edward I. was fighting Robert Bruce. Who acts: Edward I.. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 29

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Probably the tales were written down about the time when Edward I. was fighting Robert Bruce.

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**Who acts:** Edward I. · **What happens:** write down, fight · **To what, where:** tales, Robert Bruce

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Edward I.), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:1:29
# text = Probably the tales were written down about the time when Edward I. was fighting Robert Bruce.
1	Probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
11	Edward	Edward	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	I.	I.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
15	Robert	Robert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Bruce	Bruce	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write down** | past · passive |  | the tales |  |  | time | probably *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **fight** | past · progressive | Edward I. | Robert Bruce |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bruce=Co-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:** «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (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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