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title: The accident, so fatal to all his profits, had restored my brother t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The accident, so fatal to all his profits, had restored my brother to his senses, and seeing that the mischief had been caused by his own insufferable pride, he rent his clothes and tore his hair, and lamented himself so loudly that the passers-by stopped to listen. Who acts: herald, own insufferabl
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 82

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The accident, so fatal to all his profits, had restored my brother to his senses, and seeing that the mischief had been caused by his own insufferable pride, he rent his clothes and tore his hair, and lamented himself so loudly that the passers-by stopped to listen.

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**Who acts:** herald, own insufferable pride · **What happens:** restore, see, cause, rend, tore, lament · **To what, where:** accident, mischief, clothes, hair, herald, passers

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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 (herald, own insufferable pride), 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:pg128:20:82
# text = The accident, so fatal to all his profits, had restored my brother to his senses, and seeing that the mischief had been caused by his own insufferable pride, he rent his clothes and tore his hair, and lamented himself so loudly that the passers-by stopped to listen.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	profits	profit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	restored	restore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	senses	sens	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
20	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
29	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	insufferable	insufferable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	rent	rend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	34	obj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	tore	tore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	lamented	lament	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
44	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	43	obj	_	_
45	so	so	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
47	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	passers	passer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
52	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	advcl	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	54	mark	_	_
54	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **restore** | past · perfect · passive |  | the accident |  |  |  | to herald's senses | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | herald *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **cause** | past · perfect · passive | herald's own insufferable pride | the mischief |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient |
| 4 | **rend** | past | herald | herald's clothes |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient |
| 5 | **tore** | past | herald *not said here* | herald's hair |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **lament** | past | herald *not said here* | herald |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus |
| 7 | **stop** | participle · passive |  | the passers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **listen** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **profit** |  | herald |  |  |  |  |  | nom profit «possession intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 10 | **pride** |  | herald |  |  |  |  |  | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=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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