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title: I have likewise found out by their means, that she pretends before t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I have likewise found out by their means, that she pretends before the servants great uneasiness as to your absence. Who acts: I, daughter, your. 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 85

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I have likewise found out by their means, that she pretends before the servants great uneasiness as to your absence.

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**Who acts:** I, daughter, your · **What happens:** find out, mean, pretend, absent · **To what, where:** great uneasiness · **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 (I, daughter, your), 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:pg128:35:85
# text = I have likewise found out by their means, that she pretends before the servants great uneasiness as to your absence.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	pretends	pretend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	uneasiness	uneasiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	21	case	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find out** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | likewise *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **pretend** | present | daughter | great uneasiness |  |  | before the servants | as your absence | tree rules |
| 4 | **absent** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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