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title: Nevertheless I had every intention of escaping at the first opportun… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Nevertheless I had every intention of escaping at the first opportunity, and going back to Bagdad. Who acts: I, intention. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 22

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Nevertheless I had every intention of escaping at the first opportunity, and going back to Bagdad.

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**Who acts:** I, intention · **What happens:** have, escape, go back · **To what, where:** intention, first opportunity, Bagdad

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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, intention), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg128:1347`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:16:22
# text = Nevertheless I had every intention of escaping at the first opportunity, and going back to Bagdad.
1	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	intention	intention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	escaping	escape	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | I | every intention |  |  |  | nevertheless *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intention=Patient |
| 2 | **escape** | gerund | every intention *not said here* |  |  | the first opportunity |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go back** | gerund | every intention *not said here* |  | Bagdad |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to bagdad=Result |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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