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title: In a moment my mind was made up, the woman who followed had nothing… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: In a moment my mind was made up, the woman who followed had nothing to expect but a lingering death; I should be doing her a service if I shortened her misery. Who acts: moment, woman, I, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 58

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In a moment my mind was made up, the woman who followed had nothing to expect but a lingering death; I should be doing her a service if I shortened her misery.

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**Who acts:** moment, woman, I, my · **What happens:** make up, follow, have, expect, do, shorten · **To what, where:** mind, nothing, woman, misery

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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 (moment, woman, I, my), 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:pg128:16:58
# text = In a moment my mind was made up, the woman who followed had nothing to expect but a lingering death; I should be doing her a service if I shortened her misery.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	expect	expect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	lingering	lingering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux	_	_
26	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	shortened	shorten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	misery	misery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** | past · passive | a moment *not said here* | my mind |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot |
| 2 | **follow** | past | the woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | the woman | nothing |  |  | moment |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 4 | **expect** | to-infinitive | the woman *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **do** | should · progressive | I | woman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **shorten** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | I | woman's misery |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent misery=Patient |
| 7 | **mind** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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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