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title: Unluckily, in spite of my having proved the truth of the dervish's w… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Unluckily, in spite of my having proved the truth of the dervish's words in so many instances, I was firmly convinced that he was now keeping concealed from me some hidden and precious virtue of the ointment. Who acts: spite, I, dervish, hidden virtue. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainment
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 5

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Unluckily, in spite of my having proved the truth of the dervish's words in so many instances, I was firmly convinced that he was now keeping concealed from me some hidden and precious virtue of the ointment.

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**Who acts:** spite, I, dervish, hidden virtue · **What happens:** prove, be, keep, conceal, word · **To what, where:** truth, many instances, hidden virtue

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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 (spite, I, dervish, hidden virtue), 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:pg128:34:5
# text = Unluckily, in spite of my having proved the truth of the dervish's words in so many instances, I was firmly convinced that he was now keeping concealed from me some hidden and precious virtue of the ointment.
1	Unluckily	unluckily	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	aux	_	_
8	proved	prove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	dervish	dervish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	instances	instance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	convinced	convinced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	parataxis	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
29	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
30	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	xcomp	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
33	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
34	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	_
37	virtue	virtue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	ointment	ointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prove** | gerund · perfect | spite *not said here* | the truth of the dervish's words |  | many instances |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | convinced, firmly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | past · progressive | dervish | some hidden virtue of the ointment |  |  | now | from me | tree rules |
| 4 | **conceal** | participle | some hidden virtue of the ointment *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **word** |  | the dervish |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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