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title: One morning as he was hobbling through the streets he met his old en… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: One morning as he was hobbling through the streets he met his old enemy prowling to see if she could find anyone to decoy. Who acts: door, sabre. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 36

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One morning as he was hobbling through the streets he met his old enemy prowling to see if she could find anyone to decoy.

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**Who acts:** door, sabre · **What happens:** hobble, meet, prowl, see, find, decoy · **To what, where:** streets, old enemy, anyone

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, sabre), 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:pg128:21:36
# text = One morning as he was hobbling through the streets he met his old enemy prowling to see if she could find anyone to decoy.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	hobbling	hobble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	prowling	prowl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
22	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	decoy	decoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hobble** | past · progressive | door |  |  | the streets |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=Trajectory |
| 2 | **meet** | past | door | door's old enemy |  |  | morning |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **prowl** | gerund | door *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | door *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | sabre | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Topic |
| 6 | **decoy** | to-infinitive | sabre *not said here* | anyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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