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title: As I could not return home without you, even though I had gained the… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: As I could not return home without you, even though I had gained the prizes on which I had set my heart, I forced the Talking Bird to tell me how to break the spell." Who acts: I, Talking Bird. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43, with its dependency tr
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 16

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As I could not return home without you, even though I had gained the prizes on which I had set my heart, I forced the Talking Bird to tell me how to break the spell."

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**Who acts:** I, Talking Bird · **What happens:** not return, gain, set, force, tell, break · **To what, where:** prizes, heart, Talking Bird, me, spell · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Talking Bird), 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:pg128:43:16
# text = As I could not return home without you, even though I had gained the prizes on which I had set my heart, I forced the Talking Bird to tell me how to break the spell."
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	gained	gain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	prizes	prize	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	forced	force	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Talking	Talking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	iobj	_	_
33	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	ccomp	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **return** | could | I |  |  |  |  | without you; home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **gain** | past · perfect | I | the prizes |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Theme |
| 3 | **set** | past · perfect | I | my heart |  | the prizes |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme on which=Destination |
| 4 | **force** | past | I | the Talking Bird |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the Talking Bird *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **break** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the spell |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spell=Patient |

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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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