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title: Of course there were plenty who envied him his large custom, and man… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course there were plenty who envied him his large custom, and many was the pitfall set for me, so that he never dared to let me out of his sight. Who acts: plenty, pitfall. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 47

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Of course there were plenty who envied him his large custom, and many was the pitfall set for me, so that he never dared to let me out of his sight.

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**Who acts:** plenty, pitfall · **What happens:** be, envy, set, not dare, not let, sight · **To what, where:** large custom, plenty, pitfall, me, sight

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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 (plenty, pitfall), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg128:2967`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:35:47
# text = Of course there were plenty who envied him his large custom, and many was the pitfall set for me, so that he never dared to let me out of his sight.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	4	advmod	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	envied	envy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	pitfall	pitfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
18	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	26	mark	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	dared	dare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | plenty |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **envy** | past | plenty | plenty's large custom | plenty |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the pitfall |  |  |  |  | many *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **set** | participle |  | the pitfall *not said here* |  |  |  | for me | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for i=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **not** **dare** | past | plenty |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **not** **let** | to-infinitive | plenty *not said here* | me |  | plenty's sight |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 7 | **sight** |  | plenty |  |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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