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title: Reassured by the nature of their occupation, I advanced towards them… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Reassured by the nature of their occupation, I advanced towards them and they greeted me in Arabic, asking who I was and whence I came. Who acts: I, cocoanuts. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 2

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Reassured by the nature of their occupation, I advanced towards them and they greeted me in Arabic, asking who I was and whence I came.

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**Who acts:** I, cocoanuts · **What happens:** reassure, advance, greet, ask, be, come · **To what, where:** me, Arabic

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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 (I, cocoanuts), 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:pg128:16:2
# text = Reassured by the nature of their occupation, I advanced towards them and they greeted me in Arabic, asking who I was and whence I came.
1	Reassured	reassure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	occupation	occupation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	advanced	advance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	greeted	greet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reassure** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the nature of cocoanuts's occupation | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **advance** | past | I |  |  |  |  | towards cocoanuts *= cocoanut* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards they=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **greet** *speech: greet* | past | cocoanuts *= cocoanut* |  | me | Arabic |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | cocoanuts *= cocoanut* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **come** | past | I |  |  |  |  | whence *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **occupy** |  | cocoanuts *= cocoanut* |  |  |  |  |  | nom occupation «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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