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title: This being done (as I have every reason to expect), two of my servan… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: This being done (as I have every reason to expect), two of my servants will enter, each bearing a purse containing a thousand pieces of gold. Who acts: I, two, each. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 51

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This being done (as I have every reason to expect), two of my servants will enter, each bearing a purse containing a thousand pieces of gold.

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**Who acts:** I, two, each · **What happens:** do, have, expect, enter, bear, contain · **To what, where:** This, reason, purse, thousand pieces

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, two, each), 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:pg128:20:51
# text = This being done (as I have every reason to expect), two of my servants will enter, each bearing a purse containing a thousand pieces of gold.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	expect	expect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nsubj	_	_
22	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | gerund · passive |  | This |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | I | every reason |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient |
| 3 | **expect** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | every reason *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **enter** | future | two of my servants |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **bear** | gerund | each | a purse |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Patient |
| 6 | **contain** | gerund | each *not said here* | thousand pieces of gold |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot piece=Theme |

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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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