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title: He continued his pursuit till the bird suddenly swallowed the stone… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: He continued his pursuit till the bird suddenly swallowed the stone and took a longer flight than before. Who acts: Prince, bird. 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 87

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He continued his pursuit till the bird suddenly swallowed the stone and took a longer flight than before.

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**Who acts:** Prince, bird · **What happens:** continue, swallow, take, pursue · **To what, where:** pursuit, stone, longer flight

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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 (Prince, bird), 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:pg128:25:87
# text = He continued his pursuit till the bird suddenly swallowed the stone and took a longer flight than before.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	before	before	ADV	RB	_	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | Prince | Prince's pursuit |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pursuit=Theme |
| 2 | **swallow** | past | the bird | the stone |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient |
| 3 | **take** | past | Prince *not said here* | a longer flight |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Theme |
| 4 | **pursue** |  | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom pursuit «act transitive»: poss=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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