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title: Therefore when she descended, already insensible from terror, I was… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore when she descended, already insensible from terror, I was ready armed with a huge bone, one blow from which left her dead, and I secured the bread and water which gave me a hope of life. Who acts: woman, I, one blow, bread. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 59

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Therefore when she descended, already insensible from terror, I was ready armed with a huge bone, one blow from which left her dead, and I secured the bread and water which gave me a hope of life.

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**Who acts:** woman, I, one blow, bread, life · **What happens:** descend, be, leave, secure, give, hope · **To what, where:** dead, bread, hope, me

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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 (woman, I, one blow, bread), 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:pg128:16:59
# text = Therefore when she descended, already insensible from terror, I was ready armed with a huge bone, one blow from which left her dead, and I secured the bread and water which gave me a hope of life.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	descended	descend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	already	already	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	insensible	insensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	secured	secure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
37	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	iobj	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **descend** | past | woman |  |  |  |  | insensible, therefore *property* | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | with a huge bone; armed *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave** | past | one blow | woman's dead |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dead=Theme |
| 4 | **secure** | past | I | the bread and water |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition bread=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | past | the bread and water | a hope of life | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient hope=Theme |
| 6 | **hope** |  | life |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=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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