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title: But on hearing that he had not slept at home I was much alarmed, and… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: But on hearing that he had not slept at home I was much alarmed, and hastened to the cemetery, where, unluckily, the tombs were all so alike that I could not discover which was the one I was in search of, though I spent four days in looking for it. Who acts: prince, I, tombs. A sentence of «The Arab
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 82

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But on hearing that he had not slept at home I was much alarmed, and hastened to the cemetery, where, unluckily, the tombs were all so alike that I could not discover which was the one I was in search of, though I spent four days in looking for it.

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**Who acts:** prince, I, tombs · **What happens:** not sleep, alarm, hasten, not discover, be, spend · **To what, where:** hearing, home, cemetery, one, search

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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 (prince, I, tombs), 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:pg128:7:82
# text = But on hearing that he had not slept at home I was much alarmed, and hastened to the cemetery, where, unluckily, the tombs were all so alike that I could not discover which was the one I was in search of, though I spent four days in looking for it.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	slept	sleep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	much	much	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	alarmed	alarm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	unluckily	unluckily	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	tombs	tomb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
29	all	all	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
31	alike	alike	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	discover	discover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	csubj	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
41	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
45	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
48	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl	_	_
50	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	51	nummod	_	_
51	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obj	_	_
52	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
53	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	49	advcl	_	_
54	for	for	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **sleep** | past · perfect | prince | hearing *not said here* |  | home |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hearing=Theme |
| 2 | **alarm** | past · passive |  | hearing |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **hasten** | participle |  |  |  | the cemetery |  | unluckily *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cemetery=Destination |
| 4 | **not** **discover** | could | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past | the tombs | the one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | I |  |  | search |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **spend** | past | I | search *not said here* |  |  | day |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent search=Asset |
| 8 | **look** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for tomb | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=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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