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title: "No, madam," returned he, "I became blind through a most surprising… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "No, madam," returned he, "I became blind through a most surprising adventure, such as probably has never happened to anybody. Who acts: madam. 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 35

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"No, madam," returned he, "I became blind through a most surprising adventure, such as probably has never happened to anybody.

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**Who acts:** madam · **What happens:** return, become, not happen · **To what, where:** Calender, surprising adventure

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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 (madam), 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:pg128:7:35
# text = "No, madam," returned he, "I became blind through a most surprising adventure, such as probably has never happened to anybody.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	madam	madam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	17	advmod	_	_
17	surprising	surprising	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	25	mark	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | madam | Calender *= calendar* |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **become** *in a quote* | past | madam |  |  | a surprising adventure |  | blind *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **happen** *in a quote* | present · perfect | madam *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to anybody; probably *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP 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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