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title: "To please my father, I mounted the horse, and, without waiting for… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "To please my father, I mounted the horse, and, without waiting for any instructions from the Indian, turned the peg as I had seen him do. Who acts: father. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 44

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"To please my father, I mounted the horse, and, without waiting for any instructions from the Indian, turned the peg as I had seen him do.

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**Who acts:** father · **What happens:** please, mount, wait, turn, see · **To what, where:** father, horse, Indian, peg · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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:pg128:38:44
# text = "To please my father, I mounted the horse, and, without waiting for any instructions from the Indian, turned the peg as I had seen him do.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	To	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	instructions	instruction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	peg	peg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	ccomp	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **please** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | my father |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus father=Experiencer |
| 2 | **mount** *in a quote* | past | father | the horse |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 3 | **wait** *in a quote* | gerund | father *not said here* |  |  | the Indian |  | for any instructions | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **turn** *in a quote* | past |  | the peg |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** *in a quote* | past · do-support |  | father |  |  |  |  | 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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