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title: For Sindbad, passing by the open window before the feast began, had… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: For Sindbad, passing by the open window before the feast began, had heard his complaint and therefore had sent for him. Who acts: passing, Sindbad. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 29

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For Sindbad, passing by the open window before the feast began, had heard his complaint and therefore had sent for him.

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**Who acts:** passing, Sindbad · **What happens:** pass, begin, hear, send, complain · **To what, where:** complaint

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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 (passing, Sindbad), 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:pg128:13:29
# text = For Sindbad, passing by the open window before the feast began, had heard his complaint and therefore had sent for him.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	csubj	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	parataxis	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	complaint	complaint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | gerund |  |  |  |  | before the feast | by the open window | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by window=Location |
| 2 | **begin** | past | passing |  |  |  |  | for Sindbad | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **hear** | past · perfect |  | Sindbad's complaint |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer complaint=Stimulus |
| 4 | **send** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | for Sindbad; therefore *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **complain** |  | Sindbad |  |  |  |  |  | nom complaint «state intransitive»: 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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