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title: He, also, was newly arrived in Bagdad, and being brothers in misfort… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: He, also, was newly arrived in Bagdad, and being brothers in misfortune, we resolved to cast in our lots together, and to share whatever fate might have in store. Who acts: we, fate. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 22

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He, also, was newly arrived in Bagdad, and being brothers in misfortune, we resolved to cast in our lots together, and to share whatever fate might have in store.

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**Who acts:** we, fate · **What happens:** arrive, be, resolve, cast, share, have · **To what, where:** heart, Bagdad, brothers, misfortune, lots, store

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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 (we, fate), 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:pg128:8:22
# text = He, also, was newly arrived in Bagdad, and being brothers in misfortune, we resolved to cast in our lots together, and to share whatever fate might have in store.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	cop	_	_
13	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	together	together	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
29	whatever	whatever	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	30	det	_	_
30	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past · passive |  | heart |  | Bagdad |  | newly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | gerund |  | brothers |  | misfortune |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **resolve** | past | we |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cast** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  | our lots |  | together *property* | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in lot=Destination |
| 5 | **share** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | might | whatever fate |  |  | store |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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