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description: And while he was struck speechless with grief and remorse at not having guarded her better, she vanished swiftly out of his sight. Who acts: object, Sultan. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 35

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And while he was struck speechless with grief and remorse at not having guarded her better, she vanished swiftly out of his sight.

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**Who acts:** object, Sultan · **What happens:** strike, guard, vanish, sight · **To what, where:** Sultan, sight

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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 (object, Sultan), 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:pg128:39:35
# text = And while he was struck speechless with grief and remorse at not having guarded her better, she vanished swiftly out of his sight.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	speechless	speechless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	remorse	remorse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	aux	_	_
14	guarded	guard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past · passive |  | Sultan |  |  |  | with grief and remorse; speechless *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with grief=Instrument |
| 2 | **guard** | gerund · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **vanish** | past | object |  |  | Sultan's sight |  | swiftly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sight** |  | Sultan |  |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition 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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