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title: Here Sindbad paused, and all his hearers declared that the adventure… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Here Sindbad paused, and all his hearers declared that the adventures of his fourth voyage had pleased them better than anything they had heard before. Who acts: Sindbad, hearers, adventures. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 75

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Here Sindbad paused, and all his hearers declared that the adventures of his fourth voyage had pleased them better than anything they had heard before.

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**Who acts:** Sindbad, hearers, adventures · **What happens:** pause, declare, have, hear, adventure, voyage · **To what, where:** hearers, fourth voyage

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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 (Sindbad, hearers, adventures), 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:pg128:16:75
# text = Here Sindbad paused, and all his hearers declared that the adventures of his fourth voyage had pleased them better than anything they had heard before.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	paused	pause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	hearers	hearer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
16	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
18	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
20	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	obl	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	before	before	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pause** | past | Sindbad |  |  | here |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Sindbad's hearers |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | the adventures of Sindbad's fourth voyage | hearers *= hearer* |  |  |  | well *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **hear** | past · perfect | adventures *= adventure* |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **adventure** |  |  | Sindbad's fourth voyage |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **voyage** |  | Sindbad |  |  |  |  |  | nom voyage «act transitive»: 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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