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title: It was therefore with the deepest shame and sorrow that he accidenta… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: It was therefore with the deepest shame and sorrow that he accidentally discovered, after several years, that she had deceived him completely, and her whole conduct turned out to have been so bad, that he felt himself obliged to carry out the law of the land, and order the grand-vizir to put her to 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 50

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It was therefore with the deepest shame and sorrow that he accidentally discovered, after several years, that she had deceived him completely, and her whole conduct turned out to have been so bad, that he felt himself obliged to carry out the law of the land, and order the grand-vizir to put her to death.

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**Who acts:** happiness, Schahriar, whole conduct, wife · **What happens:** be, discover, deceive, turn out, feel, oblige · **To what, where:** deepest shame, wife, Schahriar, law, grand vizir

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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 (happiness, Schahriar, whole conduct, wife), 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:pg128:1:50
# text = It was therefore with the deepest shame and sorrow that he accidentally discovered, after several years, that she had deceived him completely, and her whole conduct turned out to have been so bad, that he felt himself obliged to carry out the law of the land, and order the grand-vizir to put her to death.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	deepest	deep	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	accidentally	accidentally	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	deceived	deceive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
33	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux	_	_
34	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	cop	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
41	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	40	obj	_	_
42	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	xcomp	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	advcl	_	_
45	out	out	ADP	RP	_	44	compound:prt	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	order	order	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	conj	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
55	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
58	to	to	PART	TO	_	59	mark	_	_
59	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	advcl	_	_
60	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	obj	_	_
61	to	to	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | happiness |  |  |  |  | with the deepest shame and sorrow; therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **discover** | past | Schahriar | the deepest shame and sorrow *not said here* |  |  | year | accidentally *property* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shame=Topic |
| 3 | **deceive** | past · perfect · passive |  | wife |  |  |  | completely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **turn out** | past | wife's whole conduct |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive · perfect | wife's whole conduct *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **feel** | past | Schahriar | Schahriar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **oblige** | participle | Schahriar *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **carry out** | to-infinitive | Schahriar *not said here* | the law of the land |  |  |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Eventuality |
| 9 | **order** | infinitive | Schahriar *not said here* | the grand vizir |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vizir=Theme |
| 10 | **put** | to-infinitive | Schahriar *not said here* |  | wife |  |  | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal |
| 11 | **conduct** |  | wife |  |  |  |  |  | nom conduct «act 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:** «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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