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title: Why, I never even heard of him before, and never set foot in his kin… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Why, I never even heard of him before, and never set foot in his kingdom!" was the answer. Who acts: I, debtor. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 36

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Why, I never even heard of him before, and never set foot in his kingdom!" was the answer.

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**Who acts:** I, debtor · **What happens:** not hear, not set, be · **To what, where:** foot, kingdom, answer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, debtor), 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:pg128:27:36
# text = Why, I never even heard of him before, and never set foot in his kingdom!" was the answer.
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	before	before	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	csubj	_	_
14	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hear** | participle | I |  |  |  |  | of captain; before *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **set** | infinitive |  | foot |  | captain's kingdom |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme in kingdom=Destination |
| 3 | **be** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | a debtor *= debtor* *not said here* | the answer |  |  |  |  | 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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