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title: When it was full I left it propped in the fork of a tree, and a few… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: When it was full I left it propped in the fork of a tree, and a few days later, carrying the hateful old man that way, I snatched at my gourd as I passed it and had the satisfaction of a draught of excellent wine so good and refreshing that I even forgot my detestable burden, and began to sing and c
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 13

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When it was full I left it propped in the fork of a tree, and a few days later, carrying the hateful old man that way, I snatched at my gourd as I passed it and had the satisfaction of a draught of excellent wine so good and refreshing that I even forgot my detestable burden, and began to sing and caper.

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**Who acts:** it, I, juice, my · **What happens:** be, leave, prop, carry, snatch, pass · **To what, where:** fork, hateful old man, gourd, juice, satisfaction, detestable burden

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, I, juice, 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:pg128:17:13
# text = When it was full I left it propped in the fork of a tree, and a few days later, carrying the hateful old man that way, I snatched at my gourd as I passed it and had the satisfaction of a draught of excellent wine so good and refreshing that I even forgot my detestable burden, and began to sing and caper.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	propped	prop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fork	fork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	hateful	hateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	snatched	snatch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	gourd	gourd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	draught	draught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
49	so	so	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	refreshing	refresh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	50	conj	_	_
53	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
54	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
55	even	even	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	advcl	_	_
57	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
58	detestable	detestable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
62	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
63	to	to	PART	TO	_	64	mark	_	_
64	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	62	xcomp	_	_
65	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	66	cc	_	_
66	caper	caper	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	64	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **prop** | past | juice |  |  | the fork of a tree |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in fork=Destination |
| 4 | **carry** | gerund | I *not said here* | the hateful old man |  |  |  | that way *obl:unmarked* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 5 | **snatch** | past | I |  |  | my gourd |  | late *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **pass** | past | I | juice |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory |
| 7 | **have** | past | I *not said here* | the satisfaction of a draught of excellent wine |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent satisfaction=Patient |
| 8 | **refresh** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **forget** | past | I | my detestable burden |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **begin** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 11 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 12 | **caper** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 13 | **satisfy** |  |  | a draught of excellent wine |  |  |  |  | nom satisfaction «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 14 | **burden** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom burden «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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