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title: The usher and the tailor soon returned, bringing with them an old ma… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The usher and the tailor soon returned, bringing with them an old man who must have been at least ninety years of age. " Who acts: usher. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 44

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The usher and the tailor soon returned, bringing with them an old man who must have been at least ninety years of age. "

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**Who acts:** usher · **What happens:** return, bring, have, be · **To what, where:** old man, ninety years

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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 (usher), 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:pg128:22:44
# text = The usher and the tailor soon returned, bringing with them an old man who must have been at least ninety years of age. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	usher	usher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	acl:relcl	_	_
16	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
17	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	nmod	_	_
21	ninety	ninety	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | the usher and the tailor |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | gerund | the usher and the tailor *not said here* |  | a old man |  |  | with homes *= home* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination |
| 3 | **have** | infinitive | the usher and the tailor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | participle |  | ninety years |  |  | of age |  | 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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