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title: I had now sixty, and anyone might have imagined that I should be con… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I had now sixty, and anyone might have imagined that I should be content. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 83

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I had now sixty, and anyone might have imagined that I should be content.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** have, imagine, be · **To what, where:** sixty, anyone

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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 (I), 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:pg128:33:83
# text = I had now sixty, and anyone might have imagined that I should be content.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	content	content	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | I | sixty |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sixty=Patient |
| 2 | **imagine** | might · perfect · passive |  | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | should | I |  |  |  |  | content *property* | tree rules |

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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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