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title: But even prayer did not restore peace to my troubled spirit, and I c… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: But even prayer did not restore peace to my troubled spirit, and I could not face my wife until I had made up my mind what future course I should pursue in regard to her. Who acts: prayer, I, future course, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34, with 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 101

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But even prayer did not restore peace to my troubled spirit, and I could not face my wife until I had made up my mind what future course I should pursue in regard to her.

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**Who acts:** prayer, I, future course, my · **What happens:** not restore, not face, make up, pursue, mind · **To what, where:** peace, troubled spirit, wife, mind, regard

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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 (prayer, I, future course, my), 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:pg128:34:101
# text = But even prayer did not restore peace to my troubled spirit, and I could not face my wife until I had made up my mind what future course I should pursue in regard to her.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	restore	restore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	troubled	troubled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	face	face	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	32	obj	_	_
28	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	pursue	pursue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	parataxis	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	regard	regard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **restore** | past · do-support | prayer | peace | my troubled spirit |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent peace=Theme to spirit=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **face** | could | I |  | my wife |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent wife=Destination |
| 3 | **make up** | past · perfect | I | my mind |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot |
| 4 | **pursue** | should | future course |  |  | regard to sound |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent what=Theme in regard=Trajectory |
| 5 | **mind** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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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