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title: One day, when he was obliged by important business to go away from h… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: One day, when he was obliged by important business to go away from her, he went to a place where all kinds of birds are sold and bought a parrot. Who acts: important business, man. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 19

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One day, when he was obliged by important business to go away from her, he went to a place where all kinds of birds are sold and bought a parrot.

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**Who acts:** important business, man · **What happens:** oblige, go away, go, sell, buy · **To what, where:** man, place, kinds, parrot

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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 (important business, man), 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:pg128:4:19
# text = One day, when he was obliged by important business to go away from her, he went to a place where all kinds of birds are sold and bought a parrot.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **oblige** | past · passive | important business | man |  |  | day |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **go away** | to-infinitive | important business *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from wife; away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from she=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **go** | past | man |  |  | a place |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **sell** | present · passive |  | all kinds of birds |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **buy** | participle |  | a parrot |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parrot=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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