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title: There we found delicious fruits, and having satisfied our hunger we… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: There we found delicious fruits, and having satisfied our hunger we presently lay down to rest upon the shore. Who acts: we, hunger, our. 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 36

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There we found delicious fruits, and having satisfied our hunger we presently lay down to rest upon the shore.

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**Who acts:** we, hunger, our · **What happens:** find, lie down, rest, hunger · **To what, where:** delicious fruits, shore

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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 (we, hunger, our), 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:pg128:15:36
# text = There we found delicious fruits, and having satisfied our hunger we presently lay down to rest upon the shore.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	aux	_	_
9	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
10	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | we | delicious fruits |  | there |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Topic |
| 2 | **lie down** | past | our hunger |  |  |  |  | down, presently *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rest** | to-infinitive | our hunger *not said here* |  |  | the shore |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon shore=Location |
| 4 | **hunger** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom hunger «state intransitive»: 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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