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title: As soon as all the guests had arrived the banquet began as before, a… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as all the guests had arrived the banquet began as before, and when they had feasted long and merrily, Sindbad addressed them thus: Who acts: guests, Sindbad. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 5

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As soon as all the guests had arrived the banquet began as before, and when they had feasted long and merrily, Sindbad addressed them thus:

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**Who acts:** guests, Sindbad · **What happens:** arrive, begin, feast, address · **To what, where:** guests

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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 (guests, 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:pg128:14:5
# text = As soon as all the guests had arrived the banquet began as before, and when they had feasted long and merrily, Sindbad addressed them thus:
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	before	before	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	feasted	feast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
20	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	merrily	merrily	ADV	RB	_	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	addressed	address	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past · perfect · passive |  | all guests |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** | past |  |  |  |  |  | before, soon *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **feast** | past · perfect | guests *= guest* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **address** | past | Sindbad | guests *= guest* |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination |

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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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