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title: As before, the dervish made no difficulties, and I drove off my ten… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: As before, the dervish made no difficulties, and I drove off my ten camels in triumph, only leaving him with twenty for his share. Who acts: dervish, I, brother. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 82

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As before, the dervish made no difficulties, and I drove off my ten camels in triumph, only leaving him with twenty for his share.

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**Who acts:** dervish, I, brother · **What happens:** make, drive off, leave, share · **To what, where:** difficulties, ten camels, triumph, brother

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dervish, I, 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:pg128:33:82
# text = As before, the dervish made no difficulties, and I drove off my ten camels in triumph, only leaving him with twenty for his share.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	before	before	ADV	RB	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dervish	dervish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	difficulties	difficulty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	triumph	triumph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the dervish | no difficulties |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset difficulty=Product |
| 2 | **drive off** | past | I | my ten camels |  | triumph |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent camel=Theme in triumph=Destination |
| 3 | **leave** | gerund | I *not said here* |  | brother |  |  | with twenty; for brother's share | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with twenty=Theme |
| 4 | **share** |  | brother |  |  |  |  |  | nom share «possession 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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