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title: In order to prevent this dreadful calamity they both set about inven… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: In order to prevent this dreadful calamity they both set about inventing some plan which would throw suspicion on some one else, and at last they made up their minds that they could do no better than select a Jewish doctor who lived close by as the author of the crime. Who acts: police, plan, Jewish
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 30

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In order to prevent this dreadful calamity they both set about inventing some plan which would throw suspicion on some one else, and at last they made up their minds that they could do no better than select a Jewish doctor who lived close by as the author of the crime.

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**Who acts:** police, plan, Jewish doctor · **What happens:** prevent, set, invent, throw, make up, select · **To what, where:** dreadful calamity, plan, suspicion, minds, last, Jewish doctor

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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 (police, plan, Jewish doctor), 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:pg128:19:30
# text = In order to prevent this dreadful calamity they both set about inventing some plan which would throw suspicion on some one else, and at last they made up their minds that they could do no better than select a Jewish doctor who lived close by as the author of the crime.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	4	mark	_	_
2	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	calamity	calamity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	both	both	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	set	set	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	inventing	invent	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	advcl	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	suspicion	suspicion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
22	else	else	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obl	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
34	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
35	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	aux	_	_
36	no	no	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	xcomp	_	_
38	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
39	select	select	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	csubj	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
43	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
44	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	acl:relcl	_	_
45	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	44	advmod	_	_
46	by	by	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	as	as	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	crime	crime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prevent** | to-infinitive |  | this dreadful calamity |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer calamity=Theme |
| 2 | **set** | present | police | this dreadful calamity *not said here* |  |  |  | both *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient calamity=Result |
| 3 | **invent** | gerund | police *not said here* | some plan |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Result |
| 4 | **throw** | would | some plan | suspicion |  |  |  | on some one; else *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent suspicion=Theme on one=Destination |
| 5 | **make up** | past | police | police's minds |  | last |  | good *property* | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot |
| 6 | **select** | infinitive |  | a Jewish doctor |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doctor=Theme |
| 7 | **live** | past | a Jewish doctor |  |  |  |  | by the author of the crime; close *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by author=Location |
| 8 | **mind** |  | police |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «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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