--- title: Every day I suffer a thousand hardships and misfortunes, and have ha… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Every day I suffer a thousand hardships and misfortunes, and have hard work to get even enough bad barley bread to keep myself and my family alive, while the lucky Sindbad spends money right and left and lives upon the fat of the land! Who acts: I, lucky Sindbad. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, lucky Sindbad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:13:14 # text = Every day I suffer a thousand hardships and misfortunes, and have hard work to get even enough bad barley bread to keep myself and my family alive, while the lucky Sindbad spends money right and left and lives upon the fat of the land! 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 suffer suffer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 hardships hardship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 misfortunes misfortune NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl _ _ 17 even even ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 18 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 19 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 barley barley NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 24 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 23 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 28 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 while while SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 lucky lucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 Sindbad Sindbad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 spends spend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 35 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 36 right right ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 ccomp _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 41 upon upon ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **suffer** | present | I | thousand hardships and misfortunes | | | day | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hardship=Stimulus | | 2 | **have** | present | I *not said here* | hard work | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient | | 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | enough bad barley bread | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | myself | | | | alive *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme | | 5 | **spend** | present | the lucky Sindbad | money | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent money=Asset clause=Goal | | 6 | **leave** | past | the lucky Sindbad *not said here* | | | | | right *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **live** | present | the lucky Sindbad *not said here* | | | the fat of the land | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon fat=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/13/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/13/15/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/13/)