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title: With all these treasures I came joyfully back to Bagdad, where I dis… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: With all these treasures I came joyfully back to Bagdad, where I disposed of them for large sums of money, of which I did not fail as before to give the tenth part to the poor, and after that I rested from my labours and comforted myself with all the pleasures that my riches could give me. Who acts:
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 31

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With all these treasures I came joyfully back to Bagdad, where I disposed of them for large sums of money, of which I did not fail as before to give the tenth part to the poor, and after that I rested from my labours and comforted myself with all the pleasures that my riches could give me.

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**Who acts:** I, riches · **What happens:** come, dispose, not fail, give, rest, comfort · **To what, where:** Bagdad, tenth part, poor, labours, myself, that

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, riches), 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:pg128:17:31
# text = With all these treasures I came joyfully back to Bagdad, where I disposed of them for large sums of money, of which I did not fail as before to give the tenth part to the poor, and after that I rested from my labours and comforted myself with all the pleasures that my riches could give me.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	disposed	dispose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	sums	sum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obl	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	fail	fail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
29	as	as	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	before	before	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	tenth	tenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	after	after	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	44	obl	_	_
43	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
45	from	from	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	labours	labour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	comforted	comfort	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	conj	_	_
50	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	49	obj	_	_
51	with	with	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	54	det:predet	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	pleasures	pleasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obl	_	_
55	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	59	obj	_	_
56	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	nsubj	_	_
58	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
59	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	parataxis	_	_
60	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	59	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | I |  |  | Bagdad |  | with all treasures | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bagdad=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **dispose** | past | I |  |  |  |  | of treasures *= treasure*; for large sums of money | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **fail** | past · do-support | I |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **give** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the tenth part | the poor |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent part=Theme to poor=Recipient |
| 5 | **rest** | past | I |  |  | my labours | after that |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **comfort** | past | I *not said here* | myself |  |  |  | with all pleasures | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus myself=Experiencer |
| 7 | **give** | could | my riches | that | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient that=Theme |
| 8 | **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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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