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title: This poor man is so heavily weighed down that he is ready to drop." — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: This poor man is so heavily weighed down that he is ready to drop." Who acts: man. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 18

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This poor man is so heavily weighed down that he is ready to drop."

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** weigh down, be, drop · **To what, where:** poor man

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg128:6:18
# text = This poor man is so heavily weighed down that he is ready to drop."
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	weighed	weigh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	drop	drop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weigh down** | present · passive |  | this poor man |  |  |  | heavily *property* | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value |
| 2 | **is** | present | man |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **drop** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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