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title: The ball rolled along the road so fast that Prince Bahman had much d… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The ball rolled along the road so fast that Prince Bahman had much difficulty in keeping up with it, and it never relaxed its speed till the foot of the mountain was reached. Who acts: Bahman, much difficulty, ball. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42, 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 28

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The ball rolled along the road so fast that Prince Bahman had much difficulty in keeping up with it, and it never relaxed its speed till the foot of the mountain was reached.

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**Who acts:** Bahman, much difficulty, ball · **What happens:** roll, have, keep up, not relax, reach · **To what, where:** ball, road, much difficulty, speed, foot

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bahman, much difficulty, ball), 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:pg128:42:28
# text = The ball rolled along the road so fast that Prince Bahman had much difficulty in keeping up with it, and it never relaxed its speed till the foot of the mountain was reached.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
3	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	along	along	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:desc	_	_
11	Bahman	Bahman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
13	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	relaxed	relax	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | participle |  | the ball *not said here* |  | the road |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory |
| 2 | **have** | past | Bahman  Prince | much difficulty |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Patient |
| 3 | **keep up** | gerund | much difficulty *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with ball | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **relax** | past | the ball | ball's speed |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus speed=Experiencer |
| 5 | **reach** | past · passive |  | the foot of the mountain |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=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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