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title: When Sindbad had done speaking his guests withdrew, Hindbad having f… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: When Sindbad had done speaking his guests withdrew, Hindbad having first received a hundred sequins, but all returned next day to hear the story of the seventh voyage, Sindbad thus began. Who acts: Sindbad, speaking, returned next day. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 38

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When Sindbad had done speaking his guests withdrew, Hindbad having first received a hundred sequins, but all returned next day to hear the story of the seventh voyage, Sindbad thus began.

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**Who acts:** Sindbad, speaking, returned next day · **What happens:** do, speak, withdraw, have, receive, return · **To what, where:** Hindbad, guests, hundred sequins, story · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sindbad, speaking, returned next day), 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:pg128:18:38
# text = When Sindbad had done speaking his guests withdrew, Hindbad having first received a hundred sequins, but all returned next day to hear the story of the seventh voyage, Sindbad thus began.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	withdrew	withdraw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Hindbad	Hindbad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
12	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	advmod	_	_
13	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	sequins	sequin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
20	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
21	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	seventh	seventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · perfect | Sindbad | Hindbad |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  | Sindbad's guests |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **withdraw** | past | speaking |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | gerund | Sindbad *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **receive** | past | Sindbad *not said here* | a hundred sequins |  |  |  | first *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sequin=Theme |
| 6 | **return** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **hear** | to-infinitive | all returned next day | the story of the seventh voyage |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
| 8 | **begin** | past | Sindbad |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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