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title: Hearing of his plight, I hurried after him to console him for his mi… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Hearing of his plight, I hurried after him to console him for his misfortunes, and to dress him in my best robe. Who acts: I, Alnaschar. 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 83

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Hearing of his plight, I hurried after him to console him for his misfortunes, and to dress him in my best robe.

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**Who acts:** I, Alnaschar · **What happens:** hear, hurry, console, dress, plight · **To what, where:** Alnaschar, best robe

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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 (I, Alnaschar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg128:1782`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:21:83
# text = Hearing of his plight, I hurried after him to console him for his misfortunes, and to dress him in my best robe.
1	Hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	plight	plight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	console	console	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	dress	dress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	amod	_	_
24	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Alnaschar's plight | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of plight=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hurry** | past | I |  |  |  | after Alnaschar |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **console** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | Alnaschar |  |  |  | for Alnaschar's misfortunes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 4 | **dress** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | Alnaschar |  | my best robe |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 5 | **plight** |  | Alnaschar |  |  |  |  |  | nom plight «state 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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