--- title: In his haste he jostled against the hunchback, who fell heavily upon… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: In his haste he jostled against the hunchback, who fell heavily upon him, and the merchant, thinking he was being attacked by a thief, knocked him down with one blow of his fist. Who acts: revenge, hunchback, merchant, thief. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/19/74/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/19/) / 74 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 74 In his haste he jostled against the hunchback, who fell heavily upon him, and the merchant, thinking he was being attacked by a thief, knocked him down with one blow of his fist. **Who acts:** revenge, hunchback, merchant, thief, fist · **What happens:** jostle, fall, think, attack, knock down, blow · **To what, where:** haste, revenge · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (revenge, hunchback, merchant, thief), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:19:74 # text = In his haste he jostled against the hunchback, who fell heavily upon him, and the merchant, thinking he was being attacked by a thief, knocked him down with one blow of his fist. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 haste haste NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 jostled jostle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 against against ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 hunchback hunchback NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 12 heavily heavily ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 upon upon ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 thinking think VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 23 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 attacked attack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 ccomp _ _ 25 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 thief thief NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 29 knocked knock VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 down down ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 blow blow NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 fist fist NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **jostle** | past | revenge | | | revenge's haste | | against the hunchback | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against hunchback=Theme | | 2 | **fall** | past | the hunchback | | | | | upon revenge; heavily *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the merchant *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **attack** | past · passive | a thief | revenge | | | | | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | | 5 | **knock down** | past | the merchant | revenge | | | | with one blow of revenge's fist | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with blow=Instrument | | 6 | **blow** | | revenge's fist | | | | | | nom blow «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/19/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/19/75/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/19/)