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title: But unluckily, the hunchback happened to swallow a large bone, and,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: But unluckily, the hunchback happened to swallow a large bone, and, in spite of all the tailor and his wife could do to help him, died of suffocation in an instant. Who acts: hunchback, spite. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tre
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 28

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But unluckily, the hunchback happened to swallow a large bone, and, in spite of all the tailor and his wife could do to help him, died of suffocation in an instant.

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**Who acts:** hunchback, spite · **What happens:** happen, swallow, do, help, die, spite · **To what, where:** large bone, Hunchback, tailor

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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 (hunchback, spite), 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:pg128:19:28
# text = But unluckily, the hunchback happened to swallow a large bone, and, in spite of all the tailor and his wife could do to help him, died of suffocation in an instant.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	unluckily	unluckily	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	suffocation	suffocation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | the hunchback |  |  |  |  | unluckily *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **swallow** | to-infinitive | the hunchback *not said here* | a large bone |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |
| 3 | **do** | could | spite of all tailor and Hunchback's wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **help** | to-infinitive | spite of all tailor and Hunchback's wife *not said here* |  | Hunchback |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **die** | past | spite of all tailor and Hunchback's wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of suffocation; in a instant | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in instant=Attribute |
| 6 | **spite** |  |  | all tailor and Hunchback's wife |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling 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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