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description: However, when I had explained to him how my bales had been miraculously restored to me, he graciously accepted my gifts, and in return gave me many valuable things. Who acts: I, king, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 83

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However, when I had explained to him how my bales had been miraculously restored to me, he graciously accepted my gifts, and in return gave me many valuable things.

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**Who acts:** I, king, my · **What happens:** explain, restore, accept, give, gift · **To what, where:** king, bales, me, gifts, many valuable things, return

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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 (I, king, 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:pg128:13:83
# text = However, when I had explained to him how my bales had been miraculously restored to me, he graciously accepted my gifts, and in return gave me many valuable things.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	explained	explain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	bales	bale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	miraculously	miraculously	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	restored	restore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	graciously	graciously	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	accepted	accept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
28	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	iobj	_	_
30	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | I |  | king |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 2 | **restore** | past · perfect · passive |  | my bales | me |  |  | miraculously *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to i=Recipient |
| 3 | **accept** | past | king | my gifts |  |  |  | graciously, however *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | past | king *not said here* | many valuable things | me | return |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient thing=Theme |
| 5 | **gift** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession 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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