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title: Knowing this, the Indian deliberately steered the horse right above… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Knowing this, the Indian deliberately steered the horse right above the city, in order that his revenge for his unjust imprisonment might be all the quicker and sweeter. Who acts: Indian, revenge, horse. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39, with its dep
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 32

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Knowing this, the Indian deliberately steered the horse right above the city, in order that his revenge for his unjust imprisonment might be all the quicker and sweeter.

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**Who acts:** Indian, revenge, horse · **What happens:** know, steer, be, revenge, imprison · **To what, where:** this, horse, city, order

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indian, revenge, horse), 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:pg128:39:32
# text = Knowing this, the Indian deliberately steered the horse right above the city, in order that his revenge for his unjust imprisonment might be all the quicker and sweeter.
1	Knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
6	deliberately	deliberately	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	steered	steer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	right	right	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	above	above	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	unjust	unjust	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	quicker	quick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	acl:relcl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | gerund | the Indian *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **steer** | past | the Indian | the horse |  | the city |  | in order; deliberately *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme above city=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | might | horse's revenge for horse's unjust imprisonment | order *not said here* |  |  |  | quick *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | horse's revenge for horse's unjust imprisonment *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **revenge** |  | horse |  |  |  |  | for horse's unjust imprisonment | nom revenge «act transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
| 6 | **imprison** |  | horse |  |  |  |  |  | nom imprisonment «act 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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