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description: But his character soon won him the esteem of all, and the envious man's hatred grew, till he came here with the deliberate intention of causing his death. Who acts: character, hatred, man, deliberate intention. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9, with i
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 64

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But his character soon won him the esteem of all, and the envious man's hatred grew, till he came here with the deliberate intention of causing his death.

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**Who acts:** character, hatred, man, deliberate intention · **What happens:** win, grow, come, cause, die · **To what, where:** esteem, man, death

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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 (character, hatred, man, deliberate intention), 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:pg128:9:64
# text = But his character soon won him the esteem of all, and the envious man's hatred grew, till he came here with the deliberate intention of causing his death.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	esteem	esteem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	envious	envious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	hatred	hatred	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
23	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	deliberate	deliberate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	intention	intention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	causing	cause	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past | man's character | the esteem of all | man |  |  | soon *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary esteem=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the envious man's hatred |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | man |  |  | here |  | with the deliberate intention | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **cause** | gerund | the deliberate intention *not said here* | man's death |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient |
| 5 | **die** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event 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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