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title: The doctor jumped at his wife's plan, and they took up the hunchback… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The doctor jumped at his wife's plan, and they took up the hunchback, and passing cords under his armpits they let him down into the purveyor's bed-room so gently that he really seemed to be leaning against the wall. Who acts: doctor, rats, wife. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 55

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The doctor jumped at his wife's plan, and they took up the hunchback, and passing cords under his armpits they let him down into the purveyor's bed-room so gently that he really seemed to be leaning against the wall.

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**Who acts:** doctor, rats, wife · **What happens:** jump, take up, pass, let down, seem, lean · **To what, where:** plan, hunchback, cords, armpits, doctor, bed room

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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 (doctor, rats, wife), 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:pg128:19:55
# text = The doctor jumped at his wife's plan, and they took up the hunchback, and passing cords under his armpits they let him down into the purveyor's bed-room so gently that he really seemed to be leaning against the wall.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	csubj	_	_
19	cords	cord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	under	under	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	armpits	armpit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	down	down	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	purveyor	purveyor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
36	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	really	really	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
41	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	aux	_	_
42	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	xcomp	_	_
43	against	against	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | past | the doctor |  |  | doctor's wife's plan |  | gently *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at plan=Trajectory |
| 2 | **take up** | past | rats *= rat* | the hunchback |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunchback=Theme |
| 3 | **pass** | gerund |  | cords |  | doctor's armpits |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent cord=Theme under armpit=Destination |
| 4 | **let down** | past | rats *= rat* | doctor |  | the purveyor's bed room |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **seem** | past | doctor |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 6 | **lean** | to-infinitive · progressive | doctor *not said here* |  |  | the wall |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against wall=Location |
| 7 | **plan** |  | doctor's wife |  |  |  |  |  | nom plan «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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