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description: After I had eaten and drunk of the most delicate food and rarest wines, the ladies crowded round me and begged me to tell them all my adventures. Who acts: I, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 50

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After I had eaten and drunk of the most delicate food and rarest wines, the ladies crowded round me and begged me to tell them all my adventures.

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** eat, drink, beg, tell, adventure · **To what, where:** me, adventures, ladies · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, my), 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:pg128:12:50
# text = After I had eaten and drunk of the most delicate food and rarest wines, the ladies crowded round me and begged me to tell them all my adventures.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	drunk	drink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	_
10	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	rarest	rare	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	wines	wine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	crowded	crowded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
19	round	round	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **drink** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the delicate food and rarest wines | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of food=Source |
| 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | past |  |  | me |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | my adventures | ladies *= lady* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient adventure=Topic |
| 5 | **adventure** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=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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