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title: No, no, our brother must have met his death by some accident, or wan… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: No, no, our brother must have met his death by some accident, or want of precaution, and to-morrow I will start on the same quest." Who acts: brother, I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 46

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No, no, our brother must have met his death by some accident, or want of precaution, and to-morrow I will start on the same quest."

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**Who acts:** brother, I · **What happens:** meet, want, start, die · **To what, where:** death, same quest

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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 (brother, I), 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:pg128:42:46
# text = No, no, our brother must have met his death by some accident, or want of precaution, and to-morrow I will start on the same quest."
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux	_	_
9	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	precaution	precaution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	quest	quest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | must · perfect | our brother | brother's death |  |  |  | by some accident | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **want** | infinitive | our brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of precaution | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **start** | future | I |  |  | the same quest |  | to morrow | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **die** |  | brother |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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