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title: Only the dervish guessed that they were uttered by Maimoum the son o… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Only the dervish guessed that they were uttered by Maimoum the son of Dimdim, who felt the princess escaping him. Who acts: dervish, Maimoum, son, princess. 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 85

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Only the dervish guessed that they were uttered by Maimoum the son of Dimdim, who felt the princess escaping him.

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**Who acts:** dervish, Maimoum, son, princess · **What happens:** guess, utter, feel, escape · **To what, where:** hairs, princess, dervish · **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 (dervish, Maimoum, son, princess), 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:pg128:9:85
# text = Only the dervish guessed that they were uttered by Maimoum the son of Dimdim, who felt the princess escaping him.
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dervish	dervish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	guessed	guess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	uttered	utter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Maimoum	Maimoum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Dimdim	Dimdim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	escaping	escape	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guess** | past | the dervish |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **utter** *speech: other* | past · passive | Maimoum | hairs *= hair* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **feel** | past | the son of Dimdim | the princess |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme |
| 4 | **escape** | gerund | the princess *not said here* | dervish |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Initial\_Location |

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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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