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title: Luckily my wound was only a slight one, and after binding it up as w… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Luckily my wound was only a slight one, and after binding it up as well as I could, I walked on for the rest of the day, till I reached a cave at the foot of a mountain, where I passed the night in peace, making my supper off some fruits I had gathered on the way. Who acts: wound, I, my. A sentence 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 44

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Luckily my wound was only a slight one, and after binding it up as well as I could, I walked on for the rest of the day, till I reached a cave at the foot of a mountain, where I passed the night in peace, making my supper off some fruits I had gathered on the way.

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**Who acts:** wound, I, my · **What happens:** be, bind up, walk on, reach, pass, make · **To what, where:** slight one, wound, cave, foot, peace, supper

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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 (wound, I, my), 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:pg128:8:44
# text = Luckily my wound was only a slight one, and after binding it up as well as I could, I walked on for the rest of the day, till I reached a cave at the foot of a mountain, where I passed the night in peace, making my supper off some fruits I had gathered on the way.
1	Luckily	luckily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	slight	slight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
11	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	binding	bind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
23	on	on	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	45	advmod	_	_
44	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl:unmarked	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
51	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	45	advcl	_	_
52	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
54	off	off	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	56	det	_	_
56	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obl	_	_
57	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
58	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
59	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	56	acl:relcl	_	_
60	on	on	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 wound | a slight one |  |  |  | luckily *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bind up** | gerund | I *not said here* | wound |  |  |  | well *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **walk on** | past | I |  |  |  |  | for the rest of the day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **reach** | past | I | a cave |  | the foot of a mountain |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent cave=Theme at foot=Asset |
| 5 | **pass** | past | I |  |  | peace | night |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in peace=Location |
| 6 | **make** | gerund | I *not said here* | my supper |  |  |  | off some fruits | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset supper=Product |
| 7 | **gather** | past · perfect | I | some fruits *not said here* |  | the way |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme |
| 8 | **wound** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom wound «state 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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