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title: This man, from pure goodness of heart, forsook the town where he liv… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: This man, from pure goodness of heart, forsook the town where he lived and came to dwell here, in the hope of curing one of his neighbours of the envy he felt towards him. Who acts: man, hope. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 63

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This man, from pure goodness of heart, forsook the town where he lived and came to dwell here, in the hope of curing one of his neighbours of the envy he felt towards him.

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**Who acts:** man, hope · **What happens:** forsake, live, come, dwell, cure, feel · **To what, where:** town, hope, one, envy

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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 (man, hope), 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:pg128:9:63
# text = This man, from pure goodness of heart, forsook the town where he lived and came to dwell here, in the hope of curing one of his neighbours of the envy he felt towards him.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	goodness	goodness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	forsook	forsake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	curing	cure	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	envy	envy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forsake** | past | this man | the town |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **dwell** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  | the hope; here |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hope=Location |
| 5 | **cure** | gerund | the hope *not said here* | one of man's neighbours of the envy |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer one=Source |
| 6 | **feel** | past | man | the envy *not said here* |  |  |  | towards hope | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent envy=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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