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title: To celebrate it I ordered my steward to bring me a very fat cow to s… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: To celebrate it I ordered my steward to bring me a very fat cow to sacrifice. Who acts: I, steward. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 90

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To celebrate it I ordered my steward to bring me a very fat cow to sacrifice.

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**Who acts:** I, steward · **What happens:** celebrate, order, bring, sacrifice · **To what, where:** feast, steward, fat cow, me

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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 (I, steward), 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:pg128:2:90
# text = To celebrate it I ordered my steward to bring me a very fat cow to sacrifice.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	steward	steward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	sacrifice	sacrifice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **celebrate** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | feast |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **order** | past | I | my steward |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent steward=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bring** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | my steward *not said here* | a fat cow | me |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination cow=Theme |
| 4 | **sacrifice** | to-infinitive | my steward *not said here* | a fat cow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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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