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title: In a town of moderate size, two men lived in neighbouring houses; bu… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: In a town of moderate size, two men lived in neighbouring houses; but they had not been there very long before one man took such a hatred of the other, and envied him so bitterly, that the poor man determined to find another home, hoping that when they no longer met every day his enemy would forget 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 46

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In a town of moderate size, two men lived in neighbouring houses; but they had not been there very long before one man took such a hatred of the other, and envied him so bitterly, that the poor man determined to find another home, hoping that when they no longer met every day his enemy would forget all about him.

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**Who acts:** two men, houses, one man, poor man, enemy · **What happens:** live, neighbour, have, not be, take, envy · **To what, where:** town, hatred, man, home, day · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two men, houses, one man, poor man), 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:pg128:9:46
# text = In a town of moderate size, two men lived in neighbouring houses; but they had not been there very long before one man took such a hatred of the other, and envied him so bitterly, that the poor man determined to find another home, hoping that when they no longer met every day his enemy would forget all about him.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	moderate	moderate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	cop	_	_
20	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
23	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
27	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	29	det:predet	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	hatred	hatred	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	envied	envy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	_
47	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	48	det	_	_
48	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
50	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	46	advcl	_	_
51	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
52	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	56	advmod	_	_
53	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
54	no	no	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
55	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	56	advmod	_	_
56	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	ccomp	_	_
57	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	58	det	_	_
58	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl:unmarked	_	_
59	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
60	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nsubj	_	_
61	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	62	aux	_	_
62	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	acl:relcl	_	_
63	all	all	ADV	RB	_	65	advmod	_	_
64	about	about	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | two men |  |  | a town of moderate size |  | in neighbouring houses | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location |
| 2 | **neighbour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | houses *= house* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **take** | past | one man | such hatred of the other |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatred=Theme |
| 6 | **envy** | past | one man *not said here* | man |  |  |  | bitterly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 7 | **determine** | past | the poor man |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **find** | to-infinitive | the poor man *not said here* | another home |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Topic |
| 9 | **hope** | gerund | the poor man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 10 | **meet** | past | houses *= house* |  |  |  | day | long *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 11 | **forget** | would | man's enemy | every day *not said here* |  |  |  | about man | tree rules |

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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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