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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 49

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After I had told my story they regaled me with the choicest food the ship afforded, and the captain, seeing that I was in rags, generously bestowed upon me one of his own coats.

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**Who acts:** I, merchants, rags · **What happens:** tell, regale, afford, see, be, bestow · **To what, where:** story, me, ship, rags, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, merchants, rags), 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:pg128:15:49
# text = After I had told my story they regaled me with the choicest food the ship afforded, and the captain, seeing that I was in rags, generously bestowed upon me one of his own coats.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	regaled	regale	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	choicest	choice	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
16	afforded	afford	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	rags	rag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	generously	generously	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	bestowed	bestow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
31	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	coats	coat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | I | my story |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
| 2 | **regale** | past | merchants *= merchant* | me |  |  |  | the captain *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **afford** | participle |  | the ship *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | gerund | merchants *= merchant* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | past | I |  |  | rags |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **bestow** | participle | rags *not said here* | one of chance's own coats |  |  |  | upon me; generously *property* | tree rules |

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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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