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title: Being assured of this I returned to the cavern, and amassed a rich t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Being assured of this I returned to the cavern, and amassed a rich treasure of diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and jewels of all kinds which strewed the ground. Who acts: I, jewels. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 67

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Being assured of this I returned to the cavern, and amassed a rich treasure of diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and jewels of all kinds which strewed the ground.

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**Who acts:** I, jewels · **What happens:** assure, return, amass, strew, treasure · **To what, where:** rich treasure, ground, diamonds

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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, jewels), 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:pg128:16:67
# text = Being assured of this I returned to the cavern, and amassed a rich treasure of diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and jewels of all kinds which strewed the ground.
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	assured	assure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obl	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cavern	cavern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	amassed	amass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	rubies	ruby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	emeralds	emerald	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	strewed	strew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assure** | gerund · passive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of this | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: of this=Topic |
| 2 | **return** | past | I |  |  |  |  | to the cavern *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to cavern=Result |
| 3 | **amass** | past | I *not said here* | a rich treasure of diamonds and rubies and emeralds |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme |
| 4 | **strew** | past | jewels of all kinds | the ground |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ground=Theme |
| 5 | **treasure** |  |  | diamonds and rubies and emeralds |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession 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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