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title: This has been the law upon our island from the earliest ages--the li… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: This has been the law upon our island from the earliest ages--the living husband goes to the grave with his dead wife, the living wife with her dead husband. Who acts: This, living husband. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree a
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 31

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This has been the law upon our island from the earliest ages--the living husband goes to the grave with his dead wife, the living wife with her dead husband.

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**Who acts:** This, living husband · **What happens:** be, go · **To what, where:** law, grave

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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 (This, living husband), 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:pg128:16:31
# text = This has been the law upon our island from the earliest ages--the living husband goes to the grave with his dead wife, the living wife with her dead husband.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	earliest	early	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present · perfect | This | the law |  |  |  | upon our island from the earliest ages | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | present | the living husband |  |  | the grave |  | with husband's dead wife and the living wife with wife's dead husband | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to grave=Initial\_Location |

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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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