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title: The kindness heaped on me by this excellent man was far greater than… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The kindness heaped on me by this excellent man was far greater than I could ever have expected. Who acts: kindness. 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 30

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The kindness heaped on me by this excellent man was far greater than I could ever have expected.

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**Who acts:** kindness · **What happens:** heap, be, expect · **To what, where:** kindness, I

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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 (kindness), 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:pg128:35:30
# text = The kindness heaped on me by this excellent man was far greater than I could ever have expected.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	heaped	heap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
13	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux	_	_
18	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heap** | participle |  | the kindness *not said here* |  |  |  | on me; by this excellent man | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on i=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past | the kindness |  |  |  |  | far, great *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **expect** | could · perfect · passive |  | I |  |  | ever |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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