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title: Here Sindbad paused, and commanded the musicians to play again, whil… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Here Sindbad paused, and commanded the musicians to play again, while the feasting continued until evening. Who acts: Sindbad, feasting. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 1

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Here Sindbad paused, and commanded the musicians to play again, while the feasting continued until evening.

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**Who acts:** Sindbad, feasting · **What happens:** pause, command, play, continue · **To what, where:** musicians · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sindbad, feasting), 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:pg128:14:1
# text = Here Sindbad paused, and commanded the musicians to play again, while the feasting continued until evening.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	paused	pause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	musicians	musician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	feasting	feasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	until	until	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pause** | past | Sindbad |  |  | here |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **command** | past | Sindbad *not said here* | the musicians |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent musician=Eventuality |
| 3 | **play** | to-infinitive | Sindbad *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **continue** | past | the feasting |  |  |  | evening |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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