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title: The porter retired quite overcome by so much generosity, and you may… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The porter retired quite overcome by so much generosity, and you may imagine that he was well received at home, where his wife and children thanked their lucky stars that he had found such a benefactor. Who acts: much generosity, you, wife, Sindbad. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 3

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The porter retired quite overcome by so much generosity, and you may imagine that he was well received at home, where his wife and children thanked their lucky stars that he had found such a benefactor.

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**Who acts:** much generosity, you, wife, Sindbad · **What happens:** overcome, imagine, receive, thank, find · **To what, where:** porter, Sindbad, home, lucky stars, benefactor

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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 (much generosity, you, wife, 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:pg128:14:3
# text = The porter retired quite overcome by so much generosity, and you may imagine that he was well received at home, where his wife and children thanked their lucky stars that he had found such a benefactor.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	porter	porter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	retired	retire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	overcome	overcome	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	generosity	generosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	ccomp	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
28	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
36	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	38	det:predet	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	benefactor	benefactor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overcome** | past · passive | much generosity | the porter |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme |
| 2 | **imagine** | may | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **receive** | past · passive |  | Sindbad |  | home |  | well *property* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at home=Location |
| 4 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | Sindbad's wife and children | wife's lucky stars |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Theme |
| 5 | **find** | past · perfect | Sindbad | such benefactor |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent benefactor=Topic |

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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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