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title: On perceiving his youth, good looks, and distinguished bearing, ever… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: On perceiving his youth, good looks, and distinguished bearing, everyone felt pity for him. Who acts: everyone. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 18

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On perceiving his youth, good looks, and distinguished bearing, everyone felt pity for him.

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**Who acts:** everyone · **What happens:** perceive, feel · **To what, where:** youth, pity

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everyone), 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:pg128:25:18
# text = On perceiving his youth, good looks, and distinguished bearing, everyone felt pity for him.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	perceiving	perceive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	looks	look	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bearing	bearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	14	nsubj	_	_
14	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perceive** | gerund | everyone *not said here* | Prince's youth and good looks and distinguished bearing |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer youth=Stimulus |
| 2 | **feel** | past | everyone | pity |  |  |  | for Prince | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent pity=Location for he=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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