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title: It must have been brought from a great distance, or else, fond as I… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: It must have been brought from a great distance, or else, fond as I am of all curiosities, I could not have missed hearing of it! Who acts: I, Tree. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 23

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It must have been brought from a great distance, or else, fond as I am of all curiosities, I could not have missed hearing of it!

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**Who acts:** I, Tree · **What happens:** bring, be, not miss, hear · **To what, where:** Tree, hearing

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Tree), 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:pg128:44:23
# text = It must have been brought from a great distance, or else, fond as I am of all curiosities, I could not have missed hearing of it!
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	else	else	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	curiosities	curiosity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux	_	_
26	missed	miss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	parataxis	_	_
27	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | must · perfect · passive |  | Tree |  |  |  | from a great distance | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from distance=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | as all curiosities | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **miss** | could · perfect | I | hearing of Tree |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hearing=Stimulus |
| 4 | **hear** |  | Tree |  |  |  |  |  | nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=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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