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title: On the road I caused my beard and eyebrows to be shaved, and put on… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: On the road I caused my beard and eyebrows to be shaved, and put on a Calender's habit. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 92

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On the road I caused my beard and eyebrows to be shaved, and put on a Calender's habit.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** cause, shave, put · **To what, where:** beard, road, habit

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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 (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:pg128:12:92
# text = On the road I caused my beard and eyebrows to be shaved, and put on a Calender's habit.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	eyebrows	eyebrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	shaved	shave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Calender	Calender	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | past | I | my beard and eyebrows |  | the road |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition beard=Patient |
| 2 | **shave** | to-infinitive · passive | I *not said here* | my beard and eyebrows *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **put** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  | a Calender's habit |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on habit=Destination |

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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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