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title: Pitying his age and feebleness, I took him up, and wading across the… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Pitying his age and feebleness, I took him up, and wading across the stream I bent down that he might more easily reach the bank, and bade him get down. Who acts: I, man. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 8

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Pitying his age and feebleness, I took him up, and wading across the stream I bent down that he might more easily reach the bank, and bade him get down.

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**Who acts:** I, man · **What happens:** pity, take up, wade, bend down, reach, get down · **To what, where:** age, man, stream, bank, bade

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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 (I, man), 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:pg128:17:8
# text = Pitying his age and feebleness, I took him up, and wading across the stream I bent down that he might more easily reach the bank, and bade him get down.
1	Pitying	pity	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	feebleness	feebleness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	wading	wade	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	csubj	_	_
14	across	across	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	bent	bend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
24	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
33	down	down	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pity** | gerund | I *not said here* | man's age and feebleness |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer age=Stimulus |
| 2 | **take up** | past | I |  | man |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 3 | **wade** | gerund |  |  |  | the stream |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across stream=Trajectory |
| 4 | **bend down** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **reach** | might | man | the bank |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bank=Theme |
| 6 | **get down** | present |  | bade |  |  |  | down *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=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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