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title: As in the case of his brother, the dervish tried to make him give up… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: As in the case of his brother, the dervish tried to make him give up his project, and even told him that only a few weeks since a young man, bearing a strong resemblance to himself, had passed that way, but had never come back again. Who acts: dervish, fate. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Enterta
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 52

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As in the case of his brother, the dervish tried to make him give up his project, and even told him that only a few weeks since a young man, bearing a strong resemblance to himself, had passed that way, but had never come back again.

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**Who acts:** dervish, fate · **What happens:** try, make, give up, tell, bear, pass · **To what, where:** dervish, project, strong resemblance, fate, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (dervish, fate), 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:pg128:42:52
# text = As in the case of his brother, the dervish tried to make him give up his project, and even told him that only a few weeks since a young man, bearing a strong resemblance to himself, had passed that way, but had never come back again.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dervish	dervish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	project	project	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	even	even	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	ccomp	_	_
29	since	since	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	resemblance	resemblance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	ccomp	_	_
43	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	44	det	_	_
44	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
47	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
48	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	49	advmod	_	_
49	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
50	back	back	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
51	again	again	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | the dervish |  |  |  |  | as the case of fate's brother | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the dervish *not said here* | dervish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give up** *not said to happen* | infinitive | dervish *not said here* | fate's project |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent project=Source |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the dervish *not said here* |  | dervish |  | since a young man |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **bear** | gerund | the dervish *not said here* | a strong resemblance | fate |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resemblance=Patient |
| 6 | **pass** | past · perfect |  | that way |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory |
| 7 | **not** **come back** | past | the dervish *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **project** |  | fate |  |  |  |  |  | nom project «act 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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