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title: After a very short time the pleasant easy life I led made me quite f… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: After a very short time the pleasant easy life I led made me quite forget the perils of my two voyages. Who acts: I, pleasant easy life, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 68

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After a very short time the pleasant easy life I led made me quite forget the perils of my two voyages.

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**Who acts:** I, pleasant easy life, my · **What happens:** lead, make, forget, peril, voyage · **To what, where:** pleasant easy life, me, perils, two voyages

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, pleasant easy life, my), 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:pg128:14:68
# text = After a very short time the pleasant easy life I led made me quite forget the perils of my two voyages.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	forget	forget	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	perils	peril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	voyages	voyage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | I | the pleasant easy life *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | the pleasant easy life | me |  |  | time |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product |
| 3 | **forget** | present | the pleasant easy life *not said here* | the perils of my two voyages |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **peril** |  |  | my two voyages |  |  |  |  | nom peril «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **voyage** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=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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