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title: Come quickly," she added, clapping her hands three times, and the wo… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 20

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Come quickly," she added, clapping her hands three times, and the words were hardly uttered when seven black slaves, each armed with a sabre, burst in and stood over the seven men, throwing them on the ground, and preparing themselves, on a sign from their mistress, to cut off their heads.

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**Who acts:** you, vizir · **What happens:** come, add, clap, utter, stand, throw · **To what, where:** hands, words, ground, heads

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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 (you, vizir), 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:pg128:7:20
# text = Come quickly," she added, clapping her hands three times, and the words were hardly uttered when seven black slaves, each armed with a sabre, burst in and stood over the seven men, throwing them on the ground, and preparing themselves, on a sign from their mistress, to cut off their heads.
1	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	clapping	clap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
18	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	uttered	utter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
21	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	sabre	sabre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	burst	burst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
35	over	over	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
41	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	preparing	prepare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	conj	_	_
48	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	on	on	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
53	from	from	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
57	to	to	PART	TO	_	58	mark	_	_
58	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	advcl	_	_
59	off	off	ADP	RP	_	58	compound:prt	_	_
60	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | vizir |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **clap** *in a quote* | gerund | vizir *not said here* | vizir's hands |  |  | time |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme |
| 4 | **utter** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past · passive |  | the words |  |  |  | seven black slaves and burst *obl*; hardly *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 5 | **stand** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  | over the seven men | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over man=Location |
| 6 | **throw** *in a quote* | gerund |  | words *= word* |  | the ground |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme on ground=Destination |
| 7 | **prepare** *in a quote* | gerund |  | words *= word* |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
| 8 | **cut off** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | words's heads |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |

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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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