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title: The instant they were consumed, terrific cries were heard, but no on… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The instant they were consumed, terrific cries were heard, but no one could tell from whom they proceeded. Who acts: one, hairs. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 84

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The instant they were consumed, terrific cries were heard, but no one could tell from whom they proceeded.

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**Who acts:** one, hairs · **What happens:** consume, hear, tell, proceed · **To what, where:** hairs, instant · **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 (one, hairs), 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:pg128:9:84
# text = The instant they were consumed, terrific cries were heard, but no one could tell from whom they proceeded.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	consumed	consume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	terrific	terrific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consume** | past · passive |  | hairs *= hair* |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 2 | **hear** | past · passive |  | the instant |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | could | no one |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **proceed** | past | hairs *= hair* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=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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