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title: He thrust down his hand but could feel no money, but still was persu… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: He thrust down his hand but could feel no money, but still was persuaded it must be there. Who acts: Ali, money. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 51

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He thrust down his hand but could feel no money, but still was persuaded it must be there.

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**Who acts:** Ali, money · **What happens:** thrust down, feel, persuade, be · **To what, where:** hand, money

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ali, money), 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:pg128:36:51
# text = He thrust down his hand but could feel no money, but still was persuaded it must be there.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thrust	thrust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	persuaded	persuade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thrust down** | past | Ali | Ali's hand |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 2 | **feel** | could | Ali *not said here* | no money |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 3 | **persuade** | past · passive | Ali *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP» |
| 4 | **is** | must | money |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |

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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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