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title: I examined my accounts, and found that I had doubled my capital--tha… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I examined my accounts, and found that I had doubled my capital--that is, that I now possessed two thousand sequins. Who acts: I, that, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 4

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I examined my accounts, and found that I had doubled my capital--that is, that I now possessed two thousand sequins.

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**Who acts:** I, that, my · **What happens:** examine, find, double, be, account · **To what, where:** accounts, capital · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, that, my), 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:pg128:3:4
# text = I examined my accounts, and found that I had doubled my capital--that is, that I now possessed two thousand sequins.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	examined	examine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	accounts	account	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	doubled	double	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	ccomp	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
21	possessed	possess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	compound	_	_
23	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	sequins	sequin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **examine** | past | I | my accounts |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **double** | past · perfect | I | my capital |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent capital=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  | now | possess *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **account** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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