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title: It had been the intention of the party to stop and tell their advent… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: It had been the intention of the party to stop and tell their adventures to the dervish, but they found to their sorrow that he was dead, whether from old age, or whether from the feeling that his task was done, they never knew. Who acts: rest, Bahman, Perviz. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Enter
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 21

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It had been the intention of the party to stop and tell their adventures to the dervish, but they found to their sorrow that he was dead, whether from old age, or whether from the feeling that his task was done, they never knew.

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**Who acts:** rest, Bahman, Perviz · **What happens:** be, stop, tell, find, do, not know · **To what, where:** intention, adventures, dervish, task, old age · **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 (rest, Bahman, Perviz), 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:pg128:43:21
# text = It had been the intention of the party to stop and tell their adventures to the dervish, but they found to their sorrow that he was dead, whether from old age, or whether from the feeling that his task was done, they never knew.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	intention	intention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	dervish	dervish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
30	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
36	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
43	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
46	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	48	advmod	_	_
48	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past · perfect | rest | the intention |  |  |  | of the party | tree rules |
| 2 | **stop** | to-infinitive | rest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | rest *not said here* | Bahman's adventures | the dervish |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent adventure=Topic to dervish=Recipient |
| 4 | **find** | past | Bahman |  |  |  |  | to Bahman's sorrow | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | Perviz |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** | past · passive |  | Perviz's task |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 7 | **not** **know** | past | Bahman |  |  |  | from old age | from the feeling | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **adventure** |  | Bahman |  |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **sorrow** |  | Bahman |  |  |  |  |  | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 10 | **task** |  | Perviz |  |  |  |  |  | nom task «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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