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title: Amina disappeared, and in her place stood the horse you saw me beati… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Amina disappeared, and in her place stood the horse you saw me beating yesterday. Who acts: Amina, you, me. 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 96

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Amina disappeared, and in her place stood the horse you saw me beating yesterday.

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**Who acts:** Amina, you, me · **What happens:** disappear, stand, see, beat · **To what, where:** horse, place, me

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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 (Amina, you, me), 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:pg128:35:96
# text = Amina disappeared, and in her place stood the horse you saw me beating yesterday.
1	Amina	Amina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
8	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	beating	beat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
15	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disappear** | past | Amina |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | Amina *not said here* | the horse |  | Amina's place |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme in place=Destination |
| 3 | **see** | past | you | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **beat** | gerund | me *not said here* |  |  |  | yesterday |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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