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title: He then passed into another room and ordered food to be brought, mak… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: He then passed into another room and ordered food to be brought, making signs to me to sit at table with him and eat. Who acts: Sultan. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 38

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He then passed into another room and ordered food to be brought, making signs to me to sit at table with him and eat.

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**Who acts:** Sultan · **What happens:** pass, order, bring, make, sit, eat · **To what, where:** room, food, signs, me, table

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan), 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:pg128:10:38
# text = He then passed into another room and ordered food to be brought, making signs to me to sit at table with him and eat.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | Sultan |  |  | another room | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **order** | past | Sultan *not said here* | food |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent food=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bring** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | Sultan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together» |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | Sultan *not said here* | signs | me |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product |
| 5 | **sit** | to-infinitive | Sultan *not said here* |  |  | table |  | with Sultan | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location |
| 6 | **eat** | infinitive | Sultan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «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:** «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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