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title: Here I made one more frantic effort to excite the pity of the king a… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Here I made one more frantic effort to excite the pity of the king and those who stood by, hoping to save myself even at this last moment, but it was of no avail. Who acts: I, pity. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 51

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Here I made one more frantic effort to excite the pity of the king and those who stood by, hoping to save myself even at this last moment, but it was of no avail.

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**Who acts:** I, pity · **What happens:** make, excite, stand by, hope, save, be · **To what, where:** one more frantic effort, pity, myself, king

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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, pity), 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:pg128:16:51
# text = Here I made one more frantic effort to excite the pity of the king and those who stood by, hoping to save myself even at this last moment, but it was of no avail.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
6	frantic	frantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	excite	excite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	nmod	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obj	_	_
25	even	even	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
28	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	36	det	_	_
36	avail	avail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | I | one more frantic effort |  | here |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Product |
| 2 | **excite** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the pity of the king  those |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pity=Experiencer |
| 3 | **stand by** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hope** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **save** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | myself |  |  | moment |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | pity |  |  |  |  | of no avail | tree rules |
| 7 | **pity** |  |  | the king  those |  |  |  |  | nom pity «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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