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title: However they succeeded in rousing me from my stupor, and I dashed in… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: However they succeeded in rousing me from my stupor, and I dashed into the court-yard, followed closely by Amina, who made frantic dives at me, which I was not quick enough to dodge. Who acts: blows, I, Amina, frantic. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 10

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However they succeeded in rousing me from my stupor, and I dashed into the court-yard, followed closely by Amina, who made frantic dives at me, which I was not quick enough to dodge.

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**Who acts:** blows, I, Amina, frantic · **What happens:** succeed, rouse, dash, follow, make, dive · **To what, where:** me, stupor

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blows, I, Amina, frantic), 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:pg128:35:10
# text = However they succeeded in rousing me from my stupor, and I dashed into the court-yard, followed closely by Amina, who made frantic dives at me, which I was not quick enough to dodge.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	rousing	rouse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	stupor	stupor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	dashed	dash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
21	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Amina	Amina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl:relcl	_	_
27	frantic	frantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	nsubj	_	_
28	dives	dive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	parataxis	_	_
37	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	dodge	dodge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **succeed** | past | blows *= blow* |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rouse** | gerund | blows *= blow* *not said here* | me |  | my stupor |  |  | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 3 | **dash** | past | I |  |  |  |  | into the court yard | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into yard=Destination |
| 4 | **follow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | closely *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | past | Amina |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **dive** | present | frantic |  |  |  |  | at me | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at i=Location |
| 7 | **not** **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | enough, quick *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **dodge** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=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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