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title: Her art likewise teaches me to recognise at first sight all persons… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Her art likewise teaches me to recognise at first sight all persons who are enchanted, and tells me by whom the spell was wrought." Who acts: art, spell. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 59

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Her art likewise teaches me to recognise at first sight all persons who are enchanted, and tells me by whom the spell was wrought."

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**Who acts:** art, spell · **What happens:** teach, recognise, enchant, tell, be · **To what, where:** me, persons, sight · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (art, spell), 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:pg128:10:59
# text = Her art likewise teaches me to recognise at first sight all persons who are enchanted, and tells me by whom the spell was wrought."
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	teaches	teach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	recognise	recognise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	advmod	_	_
10	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	wrought	wrought	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | Queen's art |  | me |  |  | likewise *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **recognise** | to-infinitive | Queen's art *not said here* | all persons |  | sight |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus |
| 3 | **enchant** | present · passive |  | all persons |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Queen's art *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 5 | **is** | past | the spell |  |  |  |  | wrought *property* | tree rules |

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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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