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title: Last night a man and a woman who were strangers to me knocked at my… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Last night a man and a woman who were strangers to me knocked at my door, bringing with them a patient for me to cure. Who acts: woman, man. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 102

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Last night a man and a woman who were strangers to me knocked at my door, bringing with them a patient for me to cure.

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**Who acts:** woman, man · **What happens:** be, knock, bring, cure · **To what, where:** strangers, me, patient

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, 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:pg128:19:102
# text = Last night a man and a woman who were strangers to me knocked at my door, bringing with them a patient for me to cure.
1	Last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	patient	patient	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	cure	cure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | a woman | strangers | me |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **knock** | past | a man and strangers |  |  |  | night | at my door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient |
| 3 | **bring** | gerund | a man and strangers *not said here* | a patient |  |  |  | with man; for me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent patient=Theme |
| 4 | **cure** | to-infinitive | a man and strangers *not said here* | a patient *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer |

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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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