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title: To him also I had to relate my adventures, which surprised him much,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: To him also I had to relate my adventures, which surprised him much, and when I had finished he ordered that I should be supplied with food and raiment and treated with consideration. Who acts: I, adventures, king, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 8

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To him also I had to relate my adventures, which surprised him much, and when I had finished he ordered that I should be supplied with food and raiment and treated with consideration.

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**Who acts:** I, adventures, king, my · **What happens:** relate, surprise, finish, order, supply, treat · **To what, where:** adventures, king, I

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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, adventures, king, my), 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:pg128:16:8
# text = To him also I had to relate my adventures, which surprised him much, and when I had finished he ordered that I should be supplied with food and raiment and treated with consideration.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	relate	relate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	surprised	surprise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	much	much	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	supplied	supply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	ccomp	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	raiment	raiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	consideration	consideration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **relate** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | my adventures |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme |
| 2 | **surprise** | past | my adventures | king |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 3 | **finish** | past · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **order** | past | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **supply** | should · passive |  | I |  |  |  | with food and raiment | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with food=Theme |
| 6 | **treat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with consideration | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent with consideration=Theme |
| 7 | **adventure** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «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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