--- title: The tailor, who had been uneasy at my long absence, was, delighted t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: The tailor, who had been uneasy at my long absence, was, delighted to see me; but I kept silence about my adventure, and as soon as possible retired to my room to lament in secret over my folly. Who acts: tailor, I, my. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor, I, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg128:782`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg128:9:6 # text = The tailor, who had been uneasy at my long absence, was, delighted to see me; but I kept silence about my adventure, and as soon as possible retired to my room to lament in secret over my folly. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tailor tailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 cop _ _ 7 uneasy uneasy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 acl:relcl _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 absence absence NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 delighted delighted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 23 silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 about about ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 adventure adventure NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 as as ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 33 advmod _ _ 31 as as SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 32 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 advcl _ _ 33 retired retire VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 lament lament VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 41 over over ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 folly folly NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past · perfect | the tailor | | | my long absence | | uneasy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | the tailor | | | | | delighted *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | the tailor *not said here* | me | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | | 4 | **keep** | past | I | silence | | | | about my adventure | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent silence=Theme about adventure=Location | | 5 | **retire** | past | I *not said here* | | | | | to my room; soon *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **lament** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | secret | | over my folly | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **absent** | | my | | | | | | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **adventure** | | my | | | | | | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **Text:** «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/9/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/9/7/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/9/)