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title: As he could not well cultivate the garden by himself, he engaged a l… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: As he could not well cultivate the garden by himself, he engaged a lad to help him, and to secure the rest of the treasure he put the remaining gold dust into fifty more jars, filling them up with olives so as to have them ready for transport. Who acts: man. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Enterta
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 94

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As he could not well cultivate the garden by himself, he engaged a lad to help him, and to secure the rest of the treasure he put the remaining gold dust into fifty more jars, filling them up with olives so as to have them ready for transport.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** not cultivate, engage, help, secure, put, fill up · **To what, where:** garden, lad, man, rest, remaining gold dust, jars

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg128:26:94
# text = As he could not well cultivate the garden by himself, he engaged a lad to help him, and to secure the rest of the treasure he put the remaining gold dust into fifty more jars, filling them up with olives so as to have them ready for transport.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	cultivate	cultivate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	engaged	engage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	secure	secure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	remaining	remaining	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
36	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	37	amod	_	_
37	jars	jar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	filling	fill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
40	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	up	up	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	olives	olive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
44	so	so	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
45	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	advcl	_	_
48	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	xcomp	_	_
50	for	for	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	transport	transport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **cultivate** | could | man | the garden |  |  |  | by man; well *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Product |
| 2 | **engage** | past | man | a lad |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Patient |
| 3 | **help** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | a lad *not said here* | man |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **secure** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | the rest of the treasure |  |  |  | into fifty more jars | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient into jar=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **put** | past | man | the remaining gold dust |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent dust=Goal |
| 6 | **fill up** | gerund | man *not said here* | jars *= jar* |  |  |  | with olives | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with olive=Instrument |
| 7 | **have** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | jars *= jar* |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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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