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title: He did the same thing till he reached the sixth page, and not seeing… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: He did the same thing till he reached the sixth page, and not seeing any writing on it, "Physician," he said, "there is no writing." Who acts: king, writing. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 103

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He did the same thing till he reached the sixth page, and not seeing any writing on it, "Physician," he said, "there is no writing."

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**Who acts:** king, writing · **What happens:** do, reach, not see, say, be · **To what, where:** same thing, sixth page, writing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, writing), 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:pg128:4:103
# text = He did the same thing till he reached the sixth page, and not seeing any writing on it, "Physician," he said, "there is no writing."
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	sixth	sixth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Physician	physician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	30	expl	_	_
30	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
31	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
32	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | king | the same thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **reach** | past | king | the sixth page |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent page=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **see** | gerund | king *not said here* | any writing |  | writing |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer writing=Stimulus |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **be** *in a quote* | present | no writing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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