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title: The man obeyed, and placed in my brother's hands a purse containing… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The man obeyed, and placed in my brother's hands a purse containing five hundred pieces of gold. Who acts: man, purse. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 88

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The man obeyed, and placed in my brother's hands a purse containing five hundred pieces of gold.

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**Who acts:** man, purse · **What happens:** obey, place, contain · **To what, where:** hands, hundred 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 (man, purse), 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:pg128:20:88
# text = The man obeyed, and placed in my brother's hands a purse containing five hundred pieces of gold.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	obeyed	obey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	compound	_	_
16	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obey** | past | the man |  |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **place** | participle | the man *not said here* |  |  | my brother's hands and a purse |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in hand=Destination |
| 3 | **contain** | gerund | a purse *not said here* | hundred 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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