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title: After the young gentlemen had been at the trouble of sewing the shee… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: After the young gentlemen had been at the trouble of sewing the sheep-skin on me they left me, and retired to the hall. Who acts: young gentlemen, Gentlemen. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 40

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After the young gentlemen had been at the trouble of sewing the sheep-skin on me they left me, and retired to the hall.

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**Who acts:** young gentlemen, Gentlemen · **What happens:** be, sew, leave, retire · **To what, where:** sheep skin, me

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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 (young gentlemen, Gentlemen), 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:pg128:12:40
# text = After the young gentlemen had been at the trouble of sewing the sheep-skin on me they left me, and retired to the hall.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	cop	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	sewing	sew	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	retired	retire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · perfect | the young gentlemen |  |  |  | after the trouble | on me | tree rules |
| 2 | **sew** | gerund | the young gentlemen *not said here* | the sheep skin |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Product |
| 3 | **leave** | past | Gentlemen *= gentleman* |  | me |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 4 | **retire** | participle | Gentlemen *= gentleman* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the hall | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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