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title: Sindbad, making a sign to him to approach, caused him to be seated a… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Sindbad, making a sign to him to approach, caused him to be seated at his right hand, and himself heaped choice morsels upon his plate, and poured out for him a draught of excellent wine, and presently, when the banquet drew to a close, spoke to him familiarly, asking his name and occupation. Who ac
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 25

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Sindbad, making a sign to him to approach, caused him to be seated at his right hand, and himself heaped choice morsels upon his plate, and poured out for him a draught of excellent wine, and presently, when the banquet drew to a close, spoke to him familiarly, asking his name and occupation.

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**Who acts:** Sindbad, banquet · **What happens:** make, approach, cause, seat, heap, pour out · **To what, where:** sign, company, right hand, choice morsels, plate, draught · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sindbad, banquet), 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:pg128:13:25
# text = Sindbad, making a sign to him to approach, caused him to be seated at his right hand, and himself heaped choice morsels upon his plate, and poured out for him a draught of excellent wine, and presently, when the banquet drew to a close, spoke to him familiarly, asking his name and occupation.
1	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	approach	approach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	xcomp	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	nsubj	_	_
23	heaped	heap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
24	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	morsels	morsel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	parataxis	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	draught	draught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
42	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	47	advmod	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
47	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	conj	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	_
55	familiarly	familiarly	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
57	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	52	advcl	_	_
58	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
59	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	occupation	occupation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | gerund | Sindbad *not said here* | a sign |  |  |  | to Sindbad | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product |
| 2 | **approach** | to-infinitive | Sindbad *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cause** | past | Sindbad |  | company |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **seat** | to-infinitive · passive | Sindbad *not said here* |  |  | Sindbad's right hand |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP» |
| 5 | **heap** | past | Sindbad | choice morsels |  | Sindbad's plate |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent morsel=Theme upon plate=Destination |
| 6 | **pour out** | participle |  | a draught of excellent wine |  |  |  | for Sindbad | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent draught=Patient for he=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **draw** | past | the banquet |  |  | a close |  | presently *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to close=Destination |
| 8 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the banquet *not said here* |  | Sindbad |  |  | familiarly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent |
| 9 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | the banquet *not said here* | Sindbad's name and occupation |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient |
| 10 | **name** |  | Sindbad |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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