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title: My unlucky companions having lost their reason, felt neither anxiety… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: My unlucky companions having lost their reason, felt neither anxiety nor fear, and ate greedily all that was offered them. Who acts: unlucky companions. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 90

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My unlucky companions having lost their reason, felt neither anxiety nor fear, and ate greedily all that was offered them.

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**Who acts:** unlucky companions · **What happens:** have, lose, feel, eat, offer · **To what, where:** lost reason, anxiety, that, companions

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unlucky companions), 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:pg128:15:90
# text = My unlucky companions having lost their reason, felt neither anxiety nor fear, and ate greedily all that was offered them.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	11	cc:preconj	_	_
11	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	13	cc	_	_
13	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	greedily	greedily	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | My unlucky companions *not said here* | companions's lost reason |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient |
| 2 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **feel** | past | My unlucky companions | anxiety nor fear |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anxiety=Theme |
| 4 | **eat** | past | My unlucky companions *not said here* |  |  |  |  | greedily *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **offer** | past · passive |  | that | companions *= companion* |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal they=Theme |

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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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