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title: The day passed in conversation on various subjects, and I found him… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The day passed in conversation on various subjects, and I found him a youth of ready wit and of some learning. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 74

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The day passed in conversation on various subjects, and I found him a youth of ready wit and of some learning.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** pass, find · **To what, where:** conversation, Agib

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg128:11:74
# text = The day passed in conversation on various subjects, and I found him a youth of ready wit and of some learning.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	wit	wit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	learning	learning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | participle |  |  |  | conversation on various subjects | day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in conversation=Location |
| 2 | **find** | past | I | Agib |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme youth=Attribute |

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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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