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title: Now this rebel vizir had hated me from my boy-hood, because once, wh… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Now this rebel vizir had hated me from my boy-hood, because once, when shooting at a bird with a bow, I had shot out his eye by accident. Who acts: rebel vizir, accident. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 88

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Now this rebel vizir had hated me from my boy-hood, because once, when shooting at a bird with a bow, I had shot out his eye by accident.

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**Who acts:** rebel vizir, accident · **What happens:** hate, shoot, shoot out · **To what, where:** me, boy hood, I

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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 (rebel vizir, accident), 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:pg128:7:88
# text = Now this rebel vizir had hated me from my boy-hood, because once, when shooting at a bird with a bow, I had shot out his eye by accident.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	rebel	rebel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	hated	hate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	hood	hood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
15	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
18	shooting	shoot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	shot	shoot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hate** | past · perfect | this rebel vizir | me |  | my boy hood |  | once *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 2 | **shoot** | gerund | this rebel vizir *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at a bird; with a bow | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at bird=Destination |
| 3 | **shoot out** | past · perfect · passive | accident | I |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Destination eye=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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