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title: I bought the woman who makes it for five hundred pieces of gold, so… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I bought the woman who makes it for five hundred pieces of gold, so that I might never be without it." Who acts: I, woman. 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 6

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I bought the woman who makes it for five hundred pieces of gold, so that I might never be without it."

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**Who acts:** I, woman · **What happens:** buy, make, not be · **To what, where:** woman, much

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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 (I, woman), 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:pg128:22:6
# text = I bought the woman who makes it for five hundred pieces of gold, so that I might never be without it."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	compound	_	_
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	22	mark	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
18	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
21	without	without	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | past | I | the woman |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present | the woman | much |  |  |  | for hundred pieces of gold | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Material for piece=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **not** **is** | might | I |  |  |  |  | without much | 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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