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title: My eyes were so blinded by gold, that I paid no heed to his wise cou… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: My eyes were so blinded by gold, that I paid no heed to his wise counsel, and only looked about for something else to grasp. 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 89

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My eyes were so blinded by gold, that I paid no heed to his wise counsel, and only looked about for something else to grasp.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** blind, pay, look, grasp · **To what, where:** eyes, that

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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:pg128:33:89
# text = My eyes were so blinded by gold, that I paid no heed to his wise counsel, and only looked about for something else to grasp.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	blinded	blind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	21	obl	_	_
25	else	else	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	grasp	grasp	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blind** | past · passive |  | My eyes |  |  |  | by gold | tree rules |
| 2 | **pay** | past | I | that |  |  |  | to brother's wise counsel | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent that=Recipient heed=Asset |
| 3 | **look** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for something; about *property* | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for something=Theme |
| 4 | **grasp** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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