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title: So the dervish repeated his tale, and dwelt more firmly than before… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: So the dervish repeated his tale, and dwelt more firmly than before on the clamour of the voices, the horrors of the black stones, which were once living men, and the difficulties of climbing the mountain; and pointed out that the chief means of success was never to look behind till you had the cage
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 72

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So the dervish repeated his tale, and dwelt more firmly than before on the clamour of the voices, the horrors of the black stones, which were once living men, and the difficulties of climbing the mountain; and pointed out that the chief means of success was never to look behind till you had the cage in your grasp.

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**Who acts:** dervish, black stones, difficulties, chief, you, voices · **What happens:** repeat, dwell, be, climb, point out, mean · **To what, where:** tale, living men, mountain, cage, grasp · **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, black stones, difficulties, chief), 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:pg128:42:72
# text = So the dervish repeated his tale, and dwelt more firmly than before on the clamour of the voices, the horrors of the black stones, which were once living men, and the difficulties of climbing the mountain; and pointed out that the chief means of success was never to look behind till you had the cage in your grasp.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dervish	dervish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	clamour	clamour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	horrors	horror	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	32	advmod	_	_
31	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	difficulties	difficulty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
37	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
38	climbing	climb	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	acl	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	pointed	point	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
44	out	out	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
45	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	advcl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
51	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	cop	_	_
52	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	54	advmod	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	54	mark	_	_
54	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	ccomp	_	_
55	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
56	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
57	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	advcl	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	_
61	in	in	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	63	nmod:poss	_	_
63	grasp	grasp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** | past | the dervish | dervish's tale |  |  |  | the difficulties *obl* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Eventuality |
| 2 | **dwell** | past | the dervish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than the clamour of the voices and the horrors of the black stones and living men; firmly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the black stones and living men | living men |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **climb** | gerund | the difficulties *not said here* | the mountain |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location mountain=Theme |
| 5 | **point out** | past | the dervish *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **mean** | present | the chief |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **not** **is** *not said to happen* | past |  |  |  |  |  | of success; look *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **have** | past | you | the cage |  | your grasp |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cage=Patient |
| 9 | **tell** |  | dervish |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 10 | **clamour** |  | the voices and the horrors of the black stones and living men |  |  |  |  |  | nom clamour «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 11 | **grasp** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom grasp «cognition 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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