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title: This would not have happened if I had only noticed the last pomegran… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: This would not have happened if I had only noticed the last pomegranate seed and eaten it like the rest. Who acts: This, I. 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 99

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This would not have happened if I had only noticed the last pomegranate seed and eaten it like the rest.

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**Who acts:** This, I · **What happens:** not happen, notice, eat · **To what, where:** last pomegranate seed, seed

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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 (This, 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:pg128:10:99
# text = This would not have happened if I had only noticed the last pomegranate seed and eaten it like the rest.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **happen** | would · perfect | This |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **notice** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | I | the last pomegranate seed |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer seed=Stimulus |
| 3 | **eat** | participle | This *not said here* | seed |  |  |  | like the rest | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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