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title: I thanked him gratefully, and tried to console myself for the loss o… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I thanked him gratefully, and tried to console myself for the loss of my eye by thinking of the other misfortunes I had escaped. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 100

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I thanked him gratefully, and tried to console myself for the loss of my eye by thinking of the other misfortunes I had escaped.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** thank, try, think, escape · **To what, where:** executioner, console, other misfortunes

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg128:7:100
# text = I thanked him gratefully, and tried to console myself for the loss of my eye by thinking of the other misfortunes I had escaped.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	gratefully	gratefully	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	console	console	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	escaped	escape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | I |  | executioner |  |  | gratefully *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **try** | past | I *not said here* | console |  |  |  | for the loss of my eye; myself *obl* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent console=Theme for loss=Attribute |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the other misfortunes | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **escape** | past · perfect | I | the other misfortunes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme misfortune=Initial\_Location |

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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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