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title: But as this sudden seizure showed no sign of abating, he left her to… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: But as this sudden seizure showed no sign of abating, he left her to her women, ordering them to take the greatest care of her. Who acts: sudden seizure, sign, seizure, announcement. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 68

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But as this sudden seizure showed no sign of abating, he left her to her women, ordering them to take the greatest care of her.

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**Who acts:** sudden seizure, sign, seizure, announcement · **What happens:** show, abate, leave, order, take, care · **To what, where:** sign, announcement, women, greatest care

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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 (sudden seizure, sign, seizure, announcement), 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:pg128:39:68
# text = But as this sudden seizure showed no sign of abating, he left her to her women, ordering them to take the greatest care of her.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	seizure	seizure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	abating	abate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	ordering	order	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
25	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past | this sudden seizure | no sign |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sign=Recipient |
| 2 | **abate** | gerund | no sign *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **leave** | past | seizure | announcement | announcement's women |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to woman=Recipient |
| 4 | **order** | gerund | seizure *not said here* |  | women *= woman* |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **take** | to-infinitive | seizure *not said here* | the greatest care of announcement |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 6 | **care** |  | announcement |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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