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title: And did you do it because your appetite was so small, or did you wis… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: And did you do it because your appetite was so small, or did you wish to count the grains so that you might never eat more than a certain number? Who acts: you, appetite. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 73

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And did you do it because your appetite was so small, or did you wish to count the grains so that you might never eat more than a certain number?

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**Who acts:** you, appetite · **What happens:** do, be, wish, count, not eat · **To what, where:** rice, grains, more

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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 (you, appetite), 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:pg128:34:73
# text = And did you do it because your appetite was so small, or did you wish to count the grains so that you might never eat more than a certain number?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	appetite	appetite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	grains	grain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	26	mark	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
27	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	obj	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · do-support | you | rice |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | past | your appetite |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **wish** | past · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **count** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the grains |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **eat** | might | you | more |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient |

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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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