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description: He then assured me that, even when I had lost my eye, I should be unable to remain with them, as their number was complete, and could not be added to. Who acts: curiosity, I, number. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 30

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He then assured me that, even when I had lost my eye, I should be unable to remain with them, as their number was complete, and could not be added to.

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**Who acts:** curiosity, I, number · **What happens:** assure, lose, be, remain, not add · **To what, where:** that, me, eye

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (curiosity, I, number), 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:pg128:12:30
# text = He then assured me that, even when I had lost my eye, I should be unable to remain with them, as their number was complete, and could not be added to.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	assured	assure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assure** | past | curiosity | that | me |  | then |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Precondition i=Beneficiary that=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | past · perfect | I | my eye |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | should | I |  |  |  |  | unable *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **remain** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with heads *= head* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | heads's number |  |  |  |  | complete *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **add** *speech: assert* | could · passive | heads's number *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle» |

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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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