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title: He went every day to fish very early, and each day he made a rule no… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: He went every day to fish very early, and each day he made a rule not to throw his nets more than four times. Who acts: sire. 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 58

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He went every day to fish very early, and each day he made a rule not to throw his nets more than four times.

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**Who acts:** sire · **What happens:** go, make, not throw · **To what, where:** rule, nets

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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 (sire), 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:pg128:3:58
# text = He went every day to fish very early, and each day he made a rule not to throw his nets more than four times.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	24	advmod	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | sire |  |  |  | day | to fish; early *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to fish=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **make** | past | sire | a rule |  |  | day |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Product |
| 3 | **not** **throw** | to-infinitive | sire *not said here* | sire's nets |  |  | time |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme |

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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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