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title: One thing I remarked which I thought very strange; this was that, fr… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: One thing I remarked which I thought very strange; this was that, from the greatest to the least, all men rode their horses without bridle or stirrups. Who acts: One thing, this, men. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 11

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One thing I remarked which I thought very strange; this was that, from the greatest to the least, all men rode their horses without bridle or stirrups.

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**Who acts:** One thing, this, men · **What happens:** remark, think, be, ride · **To what, where:** horses · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One thing, this, men), 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:pg128:16:11
# text = One thing I remarked which I thought very strange; this was that, from the greatest to the least, all men rode their horses without bridle or stirrups.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	remarked	remark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	without	without	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	stirrups	stirrup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remark** *speech: assert* | past | One thing |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  |  |  | strange *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | this |  |  |  |  | to the least; great *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **ride** | past | all men | things's horses |  |  |  | without bridle or stirrups | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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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