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title: In spite of his objection to dogs, as unclean animals, my protector… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: In spite of his objection to dogs, as unclean animals, my protector was a kind-hearted man, and knowing I had eaten nothing since yesterday, he threw me bigger and better bits than those which fell to the share of the other dogs. Who acts: protector, dog, I, host. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights E
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 22

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In spite of his objection to dogs, as unclean animals, my protector was a kind-hearted man, and knowing I had eaten nothing since yesterday, he threw me bigger and better bits than those which fell to the share of the other dogs.

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**Who acts:** protector, dog, I, host · **What happens:** be, know, eat, throw, fall, spite · **To what, where:** hearted man, spite, nothing, bigger bits, me, objection · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (protector, dog, I, host), 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:pg128:35:22
# text = In spite of his objection to dogs, as unclean animals, my protector was a kind-hearted man, and knowing I had eaten nothing since yesterday, he threw me bigger and better bits than those which fell to the share of the other dogs.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	objection	objection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	unclean	unclean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	protector	protector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
23	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	ccomp	_	_
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	26	obj	_	_
28	since	since	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
33	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	37	amod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	34	conj	_	_
37	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
38	than	than	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	37	nmod	_	_
40	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
41	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | my protector | a hearted man |  | spite of host's objection to dogs and unclean animals |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | gerund | dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **eat** | past · perfect | I | nothing |  |  | yesterday |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 4 | **throw** | past | dog | bigger bits | me |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination bit=Theme |
| 5 | **fall** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to the share of the other dogs | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to share=Theme |
| 6 | **spite** |  |  | host's objection to dogs and unclean animals |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **object** |  | host |  |  |  |  | to dogs and unclean animals | nom objection «communication intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
| 8 | **share** |  |  | the other dogs |  |  |  |  | nom share «possession transitive»: of=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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