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title: Again after the feast was over did Sindbad claim the attention of hi… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Again after the feast was over did Sindbad claim the attention of his guests and began the account of his third voyage. Who acts: feast, Sindbad, guests. 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 66

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Again after the feast was over did Sindbad claim the attention of his guests and began the account of his third voyage.

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**Who acts:** feast, Sindbad, guests · **What happens:** be, claim, begin, attend, account, voyage · **To what, where:** attention, account, third voyage

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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 (feast, Sindbad, guests), 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:pg128:14:66
# text = Again after the feast was over did Sindbad claim the attention of his guests and began the account of his third voyage.
1	Again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	9	advcl	_	_
7	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	claim	claim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	amod	_	_
22	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the feast |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **claim** *speech: other* | past · do-support | Sindbad | the attention of Sindbad's guests |  |  | again |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent attention=Topic |
| 3 | **begin** | past | Sindbad *not said here* | the account of Sindbad's third voyage |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Eventuality |
| 4 | **attend** |  | Sindbad's guests |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **account** |  |  | Sindbad's third voyage |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **voyage** |  | Sindbad |  |  |  |  |  | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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