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title: He determined to get hold of the lamp, and again plunge Aladdin into… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: He determined to get hold of the lamp, and again plunge Aladdin into the deepest poverty. Who acts: magician. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 8

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He determined to get hold of the lamp, and again plunge Aladdin into the deepest poverty.

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**Who acts:** magician · **What happens:** determine, get, plunge, hold · **To what, where:** hold, Aladdin, deepest poverty, lamp

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician), 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:pg128:32:8
# text = He determined to get hold of the lamp, and again plunge Aladdin into the deepest poverty.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	plunge	plunge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
13	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	deepest	deep	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | past | magician |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | magician *not said here* | hold of the lamp |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus |
| 3 | **plunge** | infinitive | magician *not said here* | Aladdin |  | the deepest poverty | again |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location aladdin=Theme |
| 4 | **hold** |  |  | the lamp |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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