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title: The chief policeman of the quarter came running up, and found a Chri… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The chief policeman of the quarter came running up, and found a Christian ill-treating a Mussulman. " Who acts: chief policeman. 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 76

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The chief policeman of the quarter came running up, and found a Christian ill-treating a Mussulman. "

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**Who acts:** chief policeman · **What happens:** come, run up, find, treat · **To what, where:** Christian treating Mussulman

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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 (chief policeman), 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:pg128:19:76
# text = The chief policeman of the quarter came running up, and found a Christian ill-treating a Mussulman. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	policeman	policeman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
14	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
15	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	treating	treat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Mussulman	Mussulman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the chief policeman of the quarter |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **run up** | gerund | the chief policeman of the quarter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past | the chief policeman of the quarter *not said here* | a Christian treating Mussulman |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mussulman=Topic |
| 4 | **treat** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=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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