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title: Then she took a vessel of water and pronounced over it some words I… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she took a vessel of water and pronounced over it some words I did not understand; then, on throwing the water over him, he became immediately a young man once more. Who acts: daughter, I, son. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2, with its dependenc
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 130

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Then she took a vessel of water and pronounced over it some words I did not understand; then, on throwing the water over him, he became immediately a young man once more.

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**Who acts:** daughter, I, son · **What happens:** take, pronounce, not understand, throw, become · **To what, where:** vessel, words, water, young man

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, I, son), 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:pg128:2:130
# text = Then she took a vessel of water and pronounced over it some words I did not understand; then, on throwing the water over him, he became immediately a young man once more.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	over	over	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	xcomp	_	_
34	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	35	advmod	_	_
35	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | daughter | a vessel of water |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme |
| 2 | **pronounce** | past | daughter *not said here* | some words |  | water |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **understand** | past · do-support | I | some words *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 4 | **throw** | gerund | son *not said here* | the water |  |  |  | over son | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent water=Theme over he=Destination |
| 5 | **become** | past | son | a young man |  |  | then | immediately *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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