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title: Some time afterwards my second brother wished also to sell his busin… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Some time afterwards my second brother wished also to sell his business and travel. Who acts: second brother. 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 7

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Some time afterwards my second brother wished also to sell his business and travel.

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**Who acts:** second brother · **What happens:** wish, sell · **To what, where:** business

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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 (second brother), 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:pg128:3:7
# text = Some time afterwards my second brother wished also to sell his business and travel.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	also	also	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	travel	travel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | past | my second brother |  |  |  | time | afterwards *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **sell** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | my second brother *not said here* | brother's business and travel |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=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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