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title: After a few days Prince Bahman and Prince Perviz fell back into thei… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: After a few days Prince Bahman and Prince Perviz fell back into their ordinary way of life, and passed most of their time hunting. Who acts: Prince, people. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 27

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After a few days Prince Bahman and Prince Perviz fell back into their ordinary way of life, and passed most of their time hunting.

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**Who acts:** Prince, people · **What happens:** fall back, pass, hunt · **To what, where:** ordinary way, most

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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 (Prince, people), 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:pg128:43:27
# text = After a few days Prince Bahman and Prince Perviz fell back into their ordinary way of life, and passed most of their time hunting.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	Bahman	Bahman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	Perviz	Perviz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall back** | past | Prince and Prince |  |  |  | day | into people's ordinary way of life *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into way=Result |
| 2 | **pass** | past | Prince and Prince *not said here* | most of people's time hunting |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme most=Trajectory |
| 3 | **hunt** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom hunting «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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