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title: Both used their javelins with such skill that, directly they arrived… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Both used their javelins with such skill that, directly they arrived within striking range, the lion and the bear fell, pierced through and through. Who acts: sorts, bear. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 38

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Both used their javelins with such skill that, directly they arrived within striking range, the lion and the bear fell, pierced through and through.

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**Who acts:** sorts, bear · **What happens:** use, arrive, strike, fall, pierce · **To what, where:** javelins, range

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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 (sorts, bear), 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:pg128:43:38
# text = Both used their javelins with such skill that, directly they arrived within striking range, the lion and the bear fell, pierced through and through.
1	Both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc:preconj	_	_
2	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	javelins	javelin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	within	within	ADP	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	range	range	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	pierced	pierce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
25	through	through	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	through	through	ADV	RB	_	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past |  | sorts's javelins |  |  |  | with such skill | tree rules |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | sorts *= sort* |  |  |  |  | directly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **strike** | gerund | sorts *= sort* *not said here* | range and the lion |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent range=Patient |
| 4 | **fall** | past | the bear |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **pierce** | participle | sorts *= sort* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through *property* | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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