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title: Before he could proceed further, he was stopped by the astonishment… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Before he could proceed further, he was stopped by the astonishment shown by the Barmecide. " Who acts: lord, astonishment. 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 98

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Before he could proceed further, he was stopped by the astonishment shown by the Barmecide. "

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**Who acts:** lord, astonishment · **What happens:** proceed, stop, show · **To what, where:** lord, astonishment

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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 (lord, astonishment), 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:pg128:21:98
# text = Before he could proceed further, he was stopped by the astonishment shown by the Barmecide. "
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	proceed	proceed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
5	further	further	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Barmecide	barmecide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **proceed** | could | lord |  |  |  |  | further *property* | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stop** | past · passive | the astonishment | lord |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **show** | participle |  | the astonishment *not said here* |  |  |  | by the Barmecide | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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