--- title: Hearing my words, the young man recovered himself, and when I had en… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Hearing my words, the young man recovered himself, and when I had ended, he said, "The reasons, Prince, that have caused me to be buried in this place are so strange that they cannot but surprise you. Who acts: young man, I, man, reasons. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, I, man, reasons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:11:62 # text = Hearing my words, the young man recovered himself, and when I had ended, he said, "The reasons, Prince, that have caused me to be buried in this place are so strange that they cannot but surprise you. 1 Hearing hear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 2 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 recovered recover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 12 when when SCONJ WRB _ 15 mark _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 ended end VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 27 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 caused cause VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 acl:relcl _ _ 29 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 iobj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 buried bury VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 advcl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 det _ _ 35 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 37 so so ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 ccomp _ _ 39 that that SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 40 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 41 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 42 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 44 advmod _ _ 43 but but CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 surprise surprise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 advcl _ _ 45 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | gerund | the young man *not said here* | my words | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | | 2 | **recover** | past | the young man | man | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | | 3 | **end** | past · perfect | I | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **cause** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the reasons | | man | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition i=Patient | | 6 | **bury** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | the reasons *not said here* | | | this place | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in place=Destination | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the reasons | | | | | strange *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **not** **surprise** *in a quote* | can | reasons *= reason* | you | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | | 9 | **word** | | my | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/11/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/11/63/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/11/)