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title: It is not natural that the same ointment should have two such exactl… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: It is not natural that the same ointment should have two such exactly opposite effects." Who acts: It, same ointment. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 8

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It is not natural that the same ointment should have two such exactly opposite effects."

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**Who acts:** It, same ointment · **What happens:** not be, have · **To what, where:** two such opposite effects

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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 (It, same ointment), 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:pg128:34:8
# text = It is not natural that the same ointment should have two such exactly opposite effects."
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	ointment	ointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
12	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	effects	effect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | natural *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | should | the same ointment | two such opposite effects |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=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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