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title: I soon chose a fine melon out of those which remained, but could fin… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I soon chose a fine melon out of those which remained, but could find no knife to cut it with. " 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 81

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I soon chose a fine melon out of those which remained, but could find no knife to cut it with. "

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** choose, remain, find, cut · **To what, where:** fine melon, knife

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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:pg128:11:81
# text = I soon chose a fine melon out of those which remained, but could find no knife to cut it with. "
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	melon	melon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	obl	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past | I | a fine melon |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent melon=Theme |
| 2 | **remain** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of those | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | could | I *not said here* | no knife |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Topic |
| 4 | **cut** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | knife |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |

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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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