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title: Having therefore a modest fortune, the only thing wanting to my happ… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Having therefore a modest fortune, the only thing wanting to my happiness was a wife who could return my affection, but this blessing I was not destined to get; for on the very day after my marriage, my bride began to try my patience in every way that was most hard to bear. Who acts: only thing, wif
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 63

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Having therefore a modest fortune, the only thing wanting to my happiness was a wife who could return my affection, but this blessing I was not destined to get; for on the very day after my marriage, my bride began to try my patience in every way that was most hard to bear.

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**Who acts:** only thing, wife, bride, way, my · **What happens:** have, want, be, return, not destine, get · **To what, where:** modest fortune, wife, affection, blessing, day, patience

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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 (only thing, wife, bride, way), 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:pg128:34:63
# text = Having therefore a modest fortune, the only thing wanting to my happiness was a wife who could return my affection, but this blessing I was not destined to get; for on the very day after my marriage, my bride began to try my patience in every way that was most hard to bear.
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	csubj	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	modest	modest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
10	wanting	want	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	destined	destine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	very	very	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
38	after	after	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	_
47	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	51	det	_	_
51	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
52	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	55	nsubj	_	_
53	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	cop	_	_
54	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	55	advmod	_	_
55	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	acl:relcl	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	mark	_	_
57	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund |  | a modest fortune |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Patient |
| 2 | **want** | gerund | the only thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to my happiness | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent to happiness=Attribute |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the only thing | a wife and the day after my marriage |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **return** | could | a wife and the day after my marriage | my affection |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affection=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **destine** | past · passive |  | this blessing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **get** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **begin** | past | my bride | the day after my marriage *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **try** | to-infinitive | my bride *not said here* | my patience |  | every way |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Eventuality |
| 9 | **is** | past | every way |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **bear** | to-infinitive | every way *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 11 | **marry** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom marriage «state 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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