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title: It was my intention to come to Bagdad and to throw myself at the fee… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: It was my intention to come to Bagdad and to throw myself at the feet of his Highness, who would, I felt certain, be touched by my sad story, and would grant me, besides, his help and protection. Who acts: I, sad story, Highness. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Open
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 16

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It was my intention to come to Bagdad and to throw myself at the feet of his Highness, who would, I felt certain, be touched by my sad story, and would grant me, besides, his help and protection.

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**Who acts:** I, sad story, Highness · **What happens:** be, come, throw, feel, touch, grant · **To what, where:** intention, Bagdad, myself, feet, Highness, help

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sad story, Highness), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg128:709`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:8:16
# text = It was my intention to come to Bagdad and to throw myself at the feet of his Highness, who would, I felt certain, be touched by my sad story, and would grant me, besides, his help and protection.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	intention	intention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
12	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	Highness	Highness	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	parataxis	_	_
25	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	grant	grant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
37	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	iobj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	besides	besides	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | my intention |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | Bagdad |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bagdad=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **throw** | to-infinitive |  | myself |  | the feet of Bagdad's Highness |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent myself=Theme at foot=Destination |
| 4 | **feel** | past | I |  |  |  |  | certain *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **touch** | would · passive | my sad story | Bagdad's Highness |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 6 | **grant** | would | my sad story *not said here* | Highness's help and protection | me |  |  | besides *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal help=Theme |
| 7 | **help** |  | Highness |  |  |  |  |  | nom help «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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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