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title: The Arab yokel coming to Bagdad is fearful of losing his identity, a… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Arab yokel coming to Bagdad is fearful of losing his identity, and ties a pumpkin to his leg before going to sleep. Who acts: Arab yokel. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LV. Lawkamercyme, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LV. Lawkamercyme, sentence 10

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The Arab yokel coming to Bagdad is fearful of losing his identity, and ties a pumpkin to his leg before going to sleep.

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**Who acts:** Arab yokel · **What happens:** come, be, lose, tie, go, sleep · **To what, where:** Bagdad, identity, pumpkin

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LV. Lawkamercyme. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Arab yokel), 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:pg14241:46:10
# text = The Arab yokel coming to Bagdad is fearful of losing his identity, and ties a pumpkin to his leg before going to sleep.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	yokel	yokel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	identity	identity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	ties	tie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	pumpkin	pumpkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | gerund | the Arab yokel *not said here* |  |  | Bagdad |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bagdad=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | the Arab yokel |  |  |  |  | fearful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lose** | gerund | the Arab yokel *not said here* | Bagdad's identity |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent identity=Eventuality |
| 4 | **tie** | present |  | a pumpkin |  |  |  | to Bagdad's leg | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent pumpkin=Patient to leg=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **sleep** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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