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title: The eunuch, who had expressed many contemptuous doubts as they came… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The eunuch, who had expressed many contemptuous doubts as they came along of the newcomer's powers, was much surprised and said: Who acts: eunuch, doubts. 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 31

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The eunuch, who had expressed many contemptuous doubts as they came along of the newcomer's powers, was much surprised and said:

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**Who acts:** eunuch, doubts · **What happens:** express, come along, be, say · **To what, where:** many contemptuous doubts · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (eunuch, doubts), 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:pg128:25:31
# text = The eunuch, who had expressed many contemptuous doubts as they came along of the newcomer's powers, was much surprised and said:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	eunuch	eunuch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	expressed	express	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	contemptuous	contemptuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	doubts	doubt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
13	along	along	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	newcomer	newcomer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	much	much	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **express** | past · perfect | the eunuch | many contemptuous doubts |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Theme |
| 2 | **come along** | past | doubts *= doubt* |  |  |  |  | of the newcomer's powers; along *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of power=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | the eunuch |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the eunuch *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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