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title: But they made up their minds to die bravely, all except the porter,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: But they made up their minds to die bravely, all except the porter, who loudly inquired of Zobeida why he was to suffer for other people's faults, and declared that these misfortunes would never have happened if it had not been for the Calenders, who always brought ill-luck. Who acts: culprits, port
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 22

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But they made up their minds to die bravely, all except the porter, who loudly inquired of Zobeida why he was to suffer for other people's faults, and declared that these misfortunes would never have happened if it had not been for the Calenders, who always brought ill-luck.

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**Who acts:** culprits, porter, man, misfortunes, Calenders, other people · **What happens:** make up, die, inquire, be, declare, not happen · **To what, where:** minds, ill luck · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (culprits, porter, man, misfortunes), 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:pg128:7:22
# text = But they made up their minds to die bravely, all except the porter, who loudly inquired of Zobeida why he was to suffer for other people's faults, and declared that these misfortunes would never have happened if it had not been for the Calenders, who always brought ill-luck.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	bravely	bravely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
12	except	except	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	porter	porter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Zobeida	Zobeida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	faults	fault	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
35	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
36	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
37	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
38	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
39	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	aux	_	_
40	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	ccomp	_	_
41	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
43	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
44	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	48	advmod	_	_
45	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	48	cop	_	_
46	for	for	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	Calenders	calender	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	52	nsubj	_	_
51	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	52	advmod	_	_
52	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	acl:relcl	_	_
53	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** | past | culprits *= culprit* | culprits's minds |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot |
| 2 | **die** | to-infinitive | culprits *= culprit* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bravely *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **inquire** *speech: other* | participle | all porter |  |  |  |  | of Zobeida; loudly *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of zobeida=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | past | man |  |  |  |  | for other people's faults; suffer *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | culprits *= culprit* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **happen** | would · perfect | this misfortunes |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | porter |  |  |  |  | for the Calenders | tree rules |
| 8 | **bring** | past | the Calenders | ill luck |  |  |  | always *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=Theme |
| 9 | **mind** |  | culprits *= culprit* |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 10 | **fault** |  | other people |  |  |  |  |  | nom fault «act transitive»: poss=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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