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title: At sunset the giant returned, supped upon one of our unhappy comrade… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: At sunset the giant returned, supped upon one of our unhappy comrades, slept and snored till dawn, and then left us as before. Who acts: giant. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 16

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At sunset the giant returned, supped upon one of our unhappy comrades, slept and snored till dawn, and then left us as before.

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**Who acts:** giant · **What happens:** return, sup, sleep, snore, leave · **To what, where:** unhappy comrades, us

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant), 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:pg128:15:16
# text = At sunset the giant returned, supped upon one of our unhappy comrades, slept and snored till dawn, and then left us as before.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	supped	sup	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	comrades	comrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	slept	sleep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	snored	snore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
18	till	till	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
23	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	as	as	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	before	before	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | the giant |  |  |  | sunset |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sup** | participle | the giant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon one of our unhappy comrades | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sleep** | participle |  | our unhappy comrades *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **snore** | participle |  |  |  |  | dawn |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **leave** | past | the giant *not said here* | us |  |  | then | before *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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