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title: They even despoiled my brother of those that rightly belonged to him… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: They even despoiled my brother of those that rightly belonged to him, and he, now as poor as he had ever been in his life, decided to cast in his lot with a caravan of pilgrims who were on their way to Mecca. Who acts: possessions, brother, pilgrims. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments»
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 19

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They even despoiled my brother of those that rightly belonged to him, and he, now as poor as he had ever been in his life, decided to cast in his lot with a caravan of pilgrims who were on their way to Mecca.

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**Who acts:** possessions, brother, pilgrims · **What happens:** despoil, belong, be, decide, cast · **To what, where:** brother, life, lot, Mecca, way

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (possessions, brother, pilgrims), 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:pg128:22:19
# text = They even despoiled my brother of those that rightly belonged to him, and he, now as poor as he had ever been in his life, decided to cast in his lot with a caravan of pilgrims who were on their way to Mecca.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	despoiled	despoil	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	nmod	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	rightly	rightly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
23	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	27	advmod	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	cop	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	caravan	caravan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	pilgrims	pilgrim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
40	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
41	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	acl:relcl	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Mecca	Mecca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **despoil** | past | possessions *= possession* | my brother of those |  |  |  |  | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Source |
| 2 | **belong** | past | my brother of those |  | brother |  |  | rightly *property* | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past · perfect | brother |  |  | brother's life | ever |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **decide** | past | possessions *= possession* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **cast** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | possessions *= possession* *not said here* |  |  | brother's lot with a caravan of pilgrims |  |  | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in lot=Destination |
| 6 | **is** | past | pilgrims |  | Mecca | possessions's way |  |  | 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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