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title: The fame of his virtue gradually spread abroad, and many people, inc… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The fame of his virtue gradually spread abroad, and many people, including several of the highest quality, came to visit him and ask his prayers. Who acts: fame, many people. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 50

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The fame of his virtue gradually spread abroad, and many people, including several of the highest quality, came to visit him and ask his prayers.

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**Who acts:** fame, many people · **What happens:** spread, come, visit, ask, pray · **To what, where:** fame, prayers

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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 (fame, many people), 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:pg128:9:50
# text = The fame of his virtue gradually spread abroad, and many people, including several of the highest quality, came to visit him and ask his prayers.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	virtue	virtue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	spread	spread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	including	including	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | present | the fame of fame's virtue |  |  |  |  | abroad, gradually *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | many people including the several highest quality |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **visit** | to-infinitive | many people including the several highest quality *not said here* | fame |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | many people including the several highest quality *not said here* | fame's prayers |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prayer=Recipient |
| 5 | **pray** |  | fame |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act 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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