--- title: As soon as they saw me they rose and uttered words of welcome, and e… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: As soon as they saw me they rose and uttered words of welcome, and even forced me to take possession of a seat that was higher than their own, though my proper place was at their feet. Who acts: ladies, me, seat, proper place. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/12/48/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/12/) / 48 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 48 As soon as they saw me they rose and uttered words of welcome, and even forced me to take possession of a seat that was higher than their own, though my proper place was at their feet. **Who acts:** ladies, me, seat, proper place · **What happens:** see, rise, utter, force, take, be · **To what, where:** me, words, possession, feet, seat This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ladies, me, seat, proper place), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:12:48 # text = As soon as they saw me they rose and uttered words of welcome, and even forced me to take possession of a seat that was higher than their own, though my proper place was at their feet. 1 As as ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 uttered utter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 11 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 welcome welcome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 even even ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 forced force VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 18 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 21 possession possession NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 acl:relcl _ _ 28 than than ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 32 though though SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 33 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 37 at at ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | ladies *= lady* | me | | | | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | | 2 | **rise** | past | ladies *= lady* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | ladies *= lady* *not said here* | words of welcome | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 4 | **force** | past | | me | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **take** | to-infinitive | me *not said here* | possession of a seat | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme | | 6 | **is** | past | a seat | | | | | than ladies's own; high *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **is** | past | my proper place | | | ladies's feet | | | tree rules | | 8 | **possess** | | | a seat | | | | | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/12/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/12/49/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/12/)