--- title: When the time came for the porter to depart, Sindbad gave him a purs… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: When the time came for the porter to depart, Sindbad gave him a purse containing one hundred sequins, saying, "Take this, Hindbad, and go home, but to-morrow come again and you shall hear more of my adventures." Who acts: time, Sindbad, purse, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, Sindbad, purse, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:14:2 # text = When the time came for the porter to depart, Sindbad gave him a purse containing one hundred sequins, saying, "Take this, Hindbad, and go home, but to-morrow come again and you shall hear more of my adventures." 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 porter porter NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 depart depart VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 11 Sindbad Sindbad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 iobj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 purse purse NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 containing contain VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 acl _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 compound _ _ 18 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 sequins sequin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 Take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 ccomp _ _ 25 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 Hindbad Hindbad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 31 home home ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 but but CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 37 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 38 again again ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 conj _ _ 43 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 42 obj _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 adventures adventure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the time | | | | | for the porter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **depart** | to-infinitive | the time *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **give** | past | Sindbad | a purse | feasting | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient purse=Theme | | 4 | **contain** | gerund | a purse *not said here* | hundred sequins | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sequin=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a purse *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | | this | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument this=Theme hindbad=Destination | | 7 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **come** *in a quote* | present | Sindbad *not said here* | | | morrow | again | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial\_Location | | 9 | **hear** *in a quote* | shall | you | more | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | | 10 | **adventure** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/14/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/14/3/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/14/)