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title: I was nearly struck dumb with horror on seeing my wife with this hid… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I was nearly struck dumb with horror on seeing my wife with this hideous female ghoul. 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 93

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I was nearly struck dumb with horror on seeing my wife with this hideous female ghoul.

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**What happens:** strike, see · **To what, where:** I, wife

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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: 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:pg128:34:93
# text = I was nearly struck dumb with horror on seeing my wife with this hideous female ghoul.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
14	hideous	hideous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	ghoul	ghoul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	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 | **strike** | past · passive |  | I |  |  |  | with horror; dumb, nearly *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with horror=Instrument |
| 2 | **see** | gerund |  | my wife |  |  |  | with hideous female ghoul | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus |

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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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