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title: In a few days I had quite recovered from the hardships I had undergo… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: In a few days I had quite recovered from the hardships I had undergone, and then the tailor, knowing that it was the custom for the princes of our religion to learn a trade or profession so as to provide for themselves in times of ill-fortune, inquired if there was anything I could do for my living.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 53

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In a few days I had quite recovered from the hardships I had undergone, and then the tailor, knowing that it was the custom for the princes of our religion to learn a trade or profession so as to provide for themselves in times of ill-fortune, inquired if there was anything I could do for my living.

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**Who acts:** I, offer, anything, my · **What happens:** recover, undergo, know, be, learn, provide · **To what, where:** tailor, hardships, custom, trade · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, offer, anything, 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:pg128:8:53
# text = In a few days I had quite recovered from the hardships I had undergone, and then the tailor, knowing that it was the custom for the princes of our religion to learn a trade or profession so as to provide for themselves in times of ill-fortune, inquired if there was anything I could do for my living.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	recovered	recover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hardships	hardship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	undergone	undergo	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	ccomp	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	profession	profession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
40	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	42	obl	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
53	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
54	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	55	expl	_	_
55	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	ccomp	_	_
56	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	55	nsubj	_	_
57	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
58	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
59	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	acl:relcl	_	_
60	for	for	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
62	living	living	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 | **recover** | past · perfect | I | the tailor |  | the hardships | day |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from hardship=Source |
| 2 | **undergo** | past · perfect | I | the hardships *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the princes of our religion | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** | past | offer | the custom |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **learn** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a trade or profession |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **provide** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  | time | for trade | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for themselves=Recipient |
| 7 | **inquire** *speech: other* | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | anything |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **do** | could | I |  |  |  |  | for my living | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **live** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom living «cognition intransitive»: 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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