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title: In all my travels I have never before met with so cruel and horrible… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: In all my travels I have never before met with so cruel and horrible a law." Who acts: I. 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 40

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In all my travels I have never before met with so cruel and horrible a law."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** travel, meet

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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), 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:pg128:16:40
# text = In all my travels I have never before met with so cruel and horrible a law."
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	travels	travel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	before	before	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | present | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | before, cruel *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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