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title: Having no children himself, although he had been married some years,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Having no children himself, although he had been married some years, it at once occurred to him that here was a child which he could take and bring up as his own. Who acts: cradle, child. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41, with its dependency tree and
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 4

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Having no children himself, although he had been married some years, it at once occurred to him that here was a child which he could take and bring up as his own.

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**Who acts:** cradle, child · **What happens:** have, marry, occur, be, take, bring up · **To what, where:** children, gardener, child

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cradle, child), 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:pg128:41:4
# text = Having no children himself, although he had been married some years, it at once occurred to him that here was a child which he could take and bring up as his own.
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	obl	_	_
17	occurred	occur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advcl	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | cradle *not said here* | no children |  |  |  | gardener *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 2 | **marry** | past · perfect · passive |  | gardener |  |  | year |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **occur** | past | cradle |  | gardener |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | a child |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **take** | could | a child |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **bring up** | infinitive | a child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as gardener's own | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=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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