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title: More than a year after these events the minister took a chill, leavi… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: More than a year after these events the minister took a chill, leaving the bath while still heated to go out on important business. Who acts: minister. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 79

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More than a year after these events the minister took a chill, leaving the bath while still heated to go out on important business.

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**Who acts:** minister · **What happens:** take, leave, heat, go out · **To what, where:** chill, bath, important business

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (minister), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg128:2339`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:28:79
# text = More than a year after these events the minister took a chill, leaving the bath while still heated to go out on important business.
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	chill	chill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	heated	heat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
22	out	out	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the minister | a chill |  |  | year |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chill=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund | the minister *not said here* | the bath |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bath=Theme |
| 3 | **heat** | participle | the minister *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **go out** | to-infinitive | the minister *not said here* |  |  | important business |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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