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title: The savages now produced large bowls full of rice prepared with coco… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The savages now produced large bowls full of rice prepared with cocoanut oil, of which my crazy comrades ate eagerly, but I only tasted a few grains, understanding clearly that the object of our captors was to fatten us speedily for their own eating, and this was exactly what happened. Who acts: sav
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 89

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The savages now produced large bowls full of rice prepared with cocoanut oil, of which my crazy comrades ate eagerly, but I only tasted a few grains, understanding clearly that the object of our captors was to fatten us speedily for their own eating, and this was exactly what happened.

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**Who acts:** savages, crazy comrades, I, object, this, comrades · **What happens:** produce, prepare, eat, taste, understand, be · **To what, where:** large bowls, rice, few grains

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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 (savages, crazy comrades, I, object), 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:pg128:15:89
# text = The savages now produced large bowls full of rice prepared with cocoanut oil, of which my crazy comrades ate eagerly, but I only tasted a few grains, understanding clearly that the object of our captors was to fatten us speedily for their own eating, and this was exactly what happened.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	savages	savage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	produced	produce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bowls	bowl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	cocoanut	cocoanut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	crazy	crazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	comrades	comrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	tasted	taste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	grains	grain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	understanding	understand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
32	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj:outer	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	captors	captor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	fatten	fatten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
42	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	speedily	speedily	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
44	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
46	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	eating	eating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
50	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	54	nsubj	_	_
51	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	cop	_	_
52	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
53	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	54	nsubj	_	_
54	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **produce** | past | the savages | large bowls |  |  | now |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Result |
| 2 | **prepare** | participle |  | rice *not said here* |  |  |  | with cocoanut oil | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with oil=Instrument |
| 3 | **eat** | past | my crazy comrades |  |  |  |  | eagerly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of which=Source |
| 4 | **taste** | past | I | a few grains |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme grain=Attribute |
| 5 | **understand** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** | past | the object of our captors |  |  |  |  | for comrades's own eating; fatten, speedily *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | this |  |  |  |  | happen *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **eat** |  | comrades *= comrade* |  |  |  |  |  | nom eating «act 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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