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description: He came out at once in smoke, and then, having resumed his proper form, the first thing he did was to kick the vase into the sea. Who acts: fisherman, first thing. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 122

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He came out at once in smoke, and then, having resumed his proper form, the first thing he did was to kick the vase into the sea.

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**Who acts:** fisherman, first thing · **What happens:** come out, resume, do, be, form · **To what, where:** smoke, proper form, first thing, sea

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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 (fisherman, first thing), 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:pg128:4:122
# text = He came out at once in smoke, and then, having resumed his proper form, the first thing he did was to kick the vase into the sea.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	aux	_	_
13	resumed	resume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	amod	_	_
20	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:outer	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	kick	kick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	vase	vase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past | fisherman |  |  | smoke |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **resume** | gerund · perfect |  | fisherman's proper form |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Eventuality |
| 3 | **do** | past | fisherman | the first thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is** | past | the first thing |  |  | the sea |  | kick *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **form** |  | fisherman |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication 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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