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title: My brother thanked them for their courtesy and entered the building,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: My brother thanked them for their courtesy and entered the building, which was so large that it took him some time to reach the apartments of the Barmecide. Who acts: brother, building, it. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree a
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 95

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My brother thanked them for their courtesy and entered the building, which was so large that it took him some time to reach the apartments of the Barmecide.

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**Who acts:** brother, building, it · **What happens:** thank, enter, be, take, reach · **To what, where:** alms, building, Barmecide, apartments

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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 (brother, building, it), 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:pg128:21:95
# text = My brother thanked them for their courtesy and entered the building, which was so large that it took him some time to reach the apartments of the Barmecide.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	apartments	apartment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Barmecide	barmecide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | My brother |  | alms *= alm* |  |  | for brother's courtesy | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme for courtesy=Attribute |
| 2 | **enter** | past | My brother *not said here* | the building |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme building=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | past | the building |  |  |  |  | large *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | past | it |  | Barmecide |  | time |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 5 | **reach** | to-infinitive |  | the apartments of the Barmecide |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent apartment=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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