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title: So after my enemies had gone to seek other prey, he tried to lure me… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: So after my enemies had gone to seek other prey, he tried to lure me from my corner in order to force me into the street. Who acts: enemies, washing. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 17

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So after my enemies had gone to seek other prey, he tried to lure me from my corner in order to force me into the street.

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**Who acts:** enemies, washing · **What happens:** go, seek, try, lure, force · **To what, where:** other prey, me, corner, street

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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 (enemies, washing), 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:pg128:35:17
# text = So after my enemies had gone to seek other prey, he tried to lure me from my corner in order to force me into the street.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	lure	lure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	23	mark	_	_
21	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	fixed	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	force	force	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect | my enemies |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **seek** | to-infinitive | my enemies *not said here* | other prey |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Theme |
| 3 | **try** | past | washing |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **lure** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | washing *not said here* | me |  | my corner |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 5 | **force** | to-infinitive | washing *not said here* |  | me | the street |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |

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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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