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title: After thanking him for the honour that he did me, I displayed the Ca… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: After thanking him for the honour that he did me, I displayed the Caliph's gifts. Who acts: I, Sindbad, Caliph. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 59

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After thanking him for the honour that he did me, I displayed the Caliph's gifts.

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**Who acts:** I, Sindbad, Caliph · **What happens:** thank, do, display, gift · **To what, where:** Sindbad, me, gifts

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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 (I, Sindbad, Caliph), 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:pg128:18:59
# text = After thanking him for the honour that he did me, I displayed the Caliph's gifts.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	thanking	thank	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	advcl	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	displayed	display	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | gerund | I *not said here* |  | Sindbad |  |  | for the honour | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for honour=Attribute |
| 2 | **do** | past | Sindbad | me |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality |
| 3 | **display** | past | I | the Caliph's gifts |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme |
| 4 | **gift** |  | the Caliph |  |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession 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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