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title: Having thus ended his story, Sindbad ordered that one hundred sequin… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Having thus ended his story, Sindbad ordered that one hundred sequins should be given to Hindbad, and the guests then withdrew; but after the next day's feast he began the account of his sixth voyage as follows. Who acts: Having, Sindbad, guests, Bagdad. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainme
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 32

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Having thus ended his story, Sindbad ordered that one hundred sequins should be given to Hindbad, and the guests then withdrew; but after the next day's feast he began the account of his sixth voyage as follows.

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**Who acts:** Having, Sindbad, guests, Bagdad · **What happens:** have, end, order, give, withdraw, begin · **To what, where:** story, hundred sequins, Hindbad, account, sixth voyage

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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 (Having, Sindbad, guests, Bagdad), 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:pg128:17:32
# text = Having thus ended his story, Sindbad ordered that one hundred sequins should be given to Hindbad, and the guests then withdrew; but after the next day's feast he began the account of his sixth voyage as follows.
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	csubj	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	compound	_	_
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	sequins	sequin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Hindbad	Hindbad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
23	withdrew	withdraw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
26	after	after	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	sixth	sixth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
40	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
41	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **end** | past | Having | Bagdad's story |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality story=Eventuality |
| 3 | **order** | past | Sindbad |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **give** | should · passive |  | hundred sequins | Hindbad |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to hindbad=Recipient |
| 5 | **withdraw** | past | the guests |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **begin** | past | Sindbad | the account of Bagdad's sixth voyage |  |  | after the next day's feast |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Eventuality |
| 7 | **follow** | present | Sindbad *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **account** |  |  | Bagdad's sixth voyage |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 9 | **voyage** |  | Bagdad |  |  |  |  |  | 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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