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title: At last I grew angry at being captive for so long, and I vowed that… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: At last I grew angry at being captive for so long, and I vowed that if anyone would release me I would kill him at once, and would only allow him to choose in what manner he should die. Who acts: I, anyone, genius. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3, wi
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 102

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At last I grew angry at being captive for so long, and I vowed that if anyone would release me I would kill him at once, and would only allow him to choose in what manner he should die.

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**Who acts:** I, anyone, genius · **What happens:** grow, be, vow, release, kill, allow · **To what, where:** last, me, genius, manner

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, anyone, genius), 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:pg128:3:102
# text = At last I grew angry at being captive for so long, and I vowed that if anyone would release me I would kill him at once, and would only allow him to choose in what manner he should die.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
8	captive	captive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	vowed	vow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	release	release	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	only	only	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	iobj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	38	det	_	_
38	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | I |  |  | last |  | angry *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | captive *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **vow** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **release** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | anyone | me |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer i=Source |
| 5 | **kill** | would | I | genius |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 6 | **allow** | would | I *not said here* |  | genius |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **choose** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | what manner |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **die** | should | genius | what manner *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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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