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title: He did so, and soon reappeared leading two black dogs by a chain, wh… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: He did so, and soon reappeared leading two black dogs by a chain, which he brought into the centre of the hall. Who acts: Amina. 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 90

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He did so, and soon reappeared leading two black dogs by a chain, which he brought into the centre of the hall.

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**Who acts:** Amina · **What happens:** do, reappear, lead, bring · **To what, where:** two black dogs, chain, centre

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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 (Amina), 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:pg128:6:90
# text = He did so, and soon reappeared leading two black dogs by a chain, which he brought into the centre of the hall.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	reappeared	reappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Amina |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **reappear** | past | Amina *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lead** | gerund | Amina *not said here* | two black dogs |  |  |  | by a chain | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dog=Theme by chain=Destination |
| 4 | **bring** | past | Amina | a chain |  | the centre of the hall |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme into centre=Destination |

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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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