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title: Even on the first day I cut enough wood to sell for a tolerable sum,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Even on the first day I cut enough wood to sell for a tolerable sum, and very soon I became more expert, and had made enough money to repay the tailor all he had lent me. Who acts: I, tailor. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 61

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Even on the first day I cut enough wood to sell for a tolerable sum, and very soon I became more expert, and had made enough money to repay the tailor all he had lent me.

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**Who acts:** I, tailor · **What happens:** cut, sell, become, make, repay, lend · **To what, where:** enough wood, more expert, enough money, tailor, me

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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, tailor), 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:pg128:8:61
# text = Even on the first day I cut enough wood to sell for a tolerable sum, and very soon I became more expert, and had made enough money to repay the tailor all he had lent me.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	cut	cut	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	tolerable	tolerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
22	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
23	expert	expert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	parataxis	_	_
28	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	repay	repay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	conj	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	lent	lend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	acl:relcl	_	_
38	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | present | I | enough wood |  |  | day |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Product |
| 2 | **sell** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a tolerable sum | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for sum=Asset |
| 3 | **become** | past | I | more expert |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | past · perfect |  | enough money |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset money=Product |
| 5 | **repay** | to-infinitive |  |  | the tailor |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tailor=Recipient |
| 6 | **lend** | past · perfect | tailor | me |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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