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title: I had indeed good reason for my terror when, an instant later, the l… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I had indeed good reason for my terror when, an instant later, the largest of the animals wound his trunk round the stem of my tree, and with one mighty effort tore it up by the roots, bringing me to the ground entangled in its branches. Who acts: I, largest. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entert
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 82

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I had indeed good reason for my terror when, an instant later, the largest of the animals wound his trunk round the stem of my tree, and with one mighty effort tore it up by the roots, bringing me to the ground entangled in its branches.

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**Who acts:** I, largest · **What happens:** have, woun, tore up, bring, entangle, stem · **To what, where:** good reason, trunk, me, tree

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, largest), 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:pg128:18:82
# text = I had indeed good reason for my terror when, an instant later, the largest of the animals wound his trunk round the stem of my tree, and with one mighty effort tore it up by the roots, bringing me to the ground entangled in its branches.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	instant	instant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
13	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	wound	woun	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	round	round	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
33	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
35	tore	tore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	up	up	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
43	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	iobj	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
47	entangled	entangle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	acl:relcl	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | I | good reason |  |  |  | for my terror; indeed *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient |
| 2 | **woun** | past | the largest | arrow's trunk |  |  |  | round the stem of my tree | tree rules |
| 3 | **tore up** | past |  | trunk |  |  |  | with one mighty effort; by the roots | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | gerund |  |  | me |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |
| 5 | **entangle** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to the ground; in ground's branches | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in branch=Theme |
| 6 | **stem** |  |  | my tree |  |  |  |  | nom stem «communication 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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