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title: I was soon supplied with all I needed, and having satisfied my hunge… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I was soon supplied with all I needed, and having satisfied my hunger I told them faithfully all that had befallen me. Who acts: I, that, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 68

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I was soon supplied with all I needed, and having satisfied my hunger I told them faithfully all that had befallen me.

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**Who acts:** I, that, my · **What happens:** supply, need, have, tell, befall, hunger · **To what, where:** I, hunger, eyes, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, that, 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:pg128:17:68
# text = I was soon supplied with all I needed, and having satisfied my hunger I told them faithfully all that had befallen me.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	supplied	supply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
12	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	befallen	befall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	ccomp	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **supply** | past · passive |  | I |  |  |  | with all; soon *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with all=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **have** | gerund |  | my hunger |  |  |  | satisfied *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunger=Patient |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | I | my hunger *not said here* | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **befall** | past · perfect | that | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **hunger** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom hunger «state intransitive»: 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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