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title: The other guests also departed to their homes, but all returned at t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The other guests also departed to their homes, but all returned at the same hour next day, including the porter, whose former life of hard work and poverty had already begun to seem to him like a bad dream. Who acts: other guests, all, poverty. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by An
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 65

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The other guests also departed to their homes, but all returned at the same hour next day, including the porter, whose former life of hard work and poverty had already begun to seem to him like a bad dream.

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**Who acts:** other guests, all, poverty · **What happens:** depart, return, begin, seem · **To what, where:** homes, poverty

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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 (other guests, all, poverty), 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:pg128:14:65
# text = The other guests also departed to their homes, but all returned at the same hour next day, including the porter, whose former life of hard work and poverty had already begun to seem to him like a bad dream.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	departed	depart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	nsubj	_	_
12	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	including	including	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	porter	porter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	already	already	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	begun	begin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	conj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	_
39	like	like	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **depart** | past | the other guests |  |  | guests's homes |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **return** | participle | all |  |  |  | day; hour | including the porter and the porter and the porter's former life of hard work's former life of hard work | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** | past · perfect | poverty |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **seem** | to-infinitive | poverty *not said here* |  | poverty |  |  | like a bad dream | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: 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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