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title: No one spoke to me, they even appeared to hasten over their dreadful… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: No one spoke to me, they even appeared to hasten over their dreadful task, and I speedily found myself descending into the gloomy pit, with my seven loaves and pitcher of water beside me. Who acts: one, subjects, I, myself. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, p
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 52

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No one spoke to me, they even appeared to hasten over their dreadful task, and I speedily found myself descending into the gloomy pit, with my seven loaves and pitcher of water beside me.

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**Who acts:** one, subjects, I, myself · **What happens:** speak, appear, hasten, find, descend, task · **To what, where:** me, dreadful task, myself, gloomy pit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (one, subjects, I, myself), 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:pg128:16:52
# text = No one spoke to me, they even appeared to hasten over their dreadful task, and I speedily found myself descending into the gloomy pit, with my seven loaves and pitcher of water beside me.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	hasten	hasten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	speedily	speedily	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
21	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	_
22	descending	descend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	loaves	loaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | no one |  | me |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **appear** | past | subjects *= subject* |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **hasten** | to-infinitive | subjects *= subject* *not said here* |  |  | subjects's dreadful task |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over task=Trajectory |
| 4 | **find** | past | I | myself |  |  |  | speedily *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent myself=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 5 | **descend** | gerund | myself *not said here* |  |  | the gloomy pit |  | with my seven loaves beside me and pitcher of water | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pit=Location |
| 6 | **task** |  | subjects *= subject* |  |  |  |  |  | nom task «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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