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title: The dervish took the box I had extended to him, and, bidding me shut… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The dervish took the box I had extended to him, and, bidding me shut my left eye, touched it gently with the ointment. Who acts: dervish, I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 1

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The dervish took the box I had extended to him, and, bidding me shut my left eye, touched it gently with the ointment.

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**Who acts:** dervish, I · **What happens:** take, extend, bid, touch · **To what, where:** box, dervish, me, eye

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. 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), 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:pg128:34:1
# text = The dervish took the box I had extended to him, and, bidding me shut my left eye, touched it gently with the ointment.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dervish	dervish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	extended	extend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	bidding	bid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ointment	ointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the dervish | the box |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme |
| 2 | **extend** | past · perfect | I | the box *not said here* | dervish |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent box=Theme to he=Recipient |
| 3 | **bid** | gerund | the dervish *not said here* | me |  |  |  | shut *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **touch** | past |  | eye |  |  |  | with the ointment; gently *property* | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with ointment=Instrument |

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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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