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title: He was deaf to my prayers and cries, and I should soon have been dea… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: He was deaf to my prayers and cries, and I should soon have been dead of hunger and misery if some merchants had not come along the track the following day and kindly brought me back to Bagdad. Who acts: dervish, I, merchants, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Ope
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 35

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He was deaf to my prayers and cries, and I should soon have been dead of hunger and misery if some merchants had not come along the track the following day and kindly brought me back to Bagdad.

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**Who acts:** dervish, I, merchants, my · **What happens:** be, cry, not come, follow, bring back, pray · **To what, where:** track, me, Bagdad

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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, merchants, 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:pg128:34:35
# text = He was deaf to my prayers and cries, and I should soon have been dead of hunger and misery if some merchants had not come along the track the following day and kindly brought me back to Bagdad.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	deaf	deaf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	cries	cry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
12	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
13	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	cop	_	_
16	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	misery	misery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
27	along	along	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	amod	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
36	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	back	back	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | dervish |  |  |  |  | to my prayers; deaf *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | dervish *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | should · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | of hunger and misery; dead, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | some merchants |  |  | the track | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme along track=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **bring back** | past | dervish *not said here* | me | Bagdad |  |  | kindly *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to bagdad=Destination |
| 7 | **pray** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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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