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title: Again I gave large sums of money to the poor, and enriched all the m… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Again I gave large sums of money to the poor, and enriched all the mosques in the city, after which I gave myself up to my friends and relations, with whom I passed my time in feasting and merriment. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16, wit
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 74

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Again I gave large sums of money to the poor, and enriched all the mosques in the city, after which I gave myself up to my friends and relations, with whom I passed my time in feasting and merriment.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** give, enrich, give up, pass, sum · **To what, where:** large sums, poor, mosques, city, myself, friends

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg128:1391`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:16:74
# text = Again I gave large sums of money to the poor, and enriched all the mosques in the city, after which I gave myself up to my friends and relations, with whom I passed my time in feasting and merriment.
1	Again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sums	sum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	enriched	enrich	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mosques	mosque	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl:relcl	_	_
25	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obj	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	obl	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
37	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	feasting	feasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	merriment	merriment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | I | large sums of money | the poor |  | again |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sum=Theme to poor=Recipient |
| 2 | **enrich** | past | I *not said here* | all mosques |  | the city |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mosque=Destination |
| 3 | **give up** | past | I | myself | my friends and relations |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent myself=Theme to friend=Recipient |
| 4 | **pass** | past | I |  |  | feasting and merriment | time | with my friends and relations | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in feasting=Location |
| 5 | **sum** |  |  | money |  |  |  |  | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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