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title: Shortly afterwards he expired, leaving universal regret throughout t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Shortly afterwards he expired, leaving universal regret throughout the kingdom; rich and poor alike followed him to the grave. Who acts: vizir, rich. 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 82

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Shortly afterwards he expired, leaving universal regret throughout the kingdom; rich and poor alike followed him to the grave.

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**Who acts:** vizir, rich · **What happens:** expire, leave, follow · **To what, where:** universal regret, kingdom, vizir, grave

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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 (vizir, rich), 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:pg128:28:82
# text = Shortly afterwards he expired, leaving universal regret throughout the kingdom; rich and poor alike followed him to the grave.
1	Shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	expired	expire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	universal	universal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	regret	regret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	alike	alike	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expire** | past | vizir |  |  |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund | vizir *not said here* | universal regret |  | the kingdom |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent regret=Theme throughout kingdom=Location |
| 3 | **follow** | past | rich | vizir |  | the grave |  | alike *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme to grave=Trajectory |

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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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