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title: He then commanded his officers to provide me with a suitable lodging… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: He then commanded his officers to provide me with a suitable lodging at his expense, and sent slaves to wait upon me and carry my raft and my bales to my new dwelling place. Who acts: Heaven, slaves. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18, with its depende
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 8

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He then commanded his officers to provide me with a suitable lodging at his expense, and sent slaves to wait upon me and carry my raft and my bales to my new dwelling place.

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**Who acts:** Heaven, slaves · **What happens:** command, provide, send, wait, carry · **To what, where:** officers, me, slaves, raft, new dwelling place · **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 (Heaven, slaves), 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:pg128:18:8
# text = He then commanded his officers to provide me with a suitable lodging at his expense, and sent slaves to wait upon me and carry my raft and my bales to my new dwelling place.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	commanded	command	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	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	suitable	suitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	lodging	lodging	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	expense	expense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	raft	raft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	bales	bale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
33	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **command** | past | Heaven | Heaven's officers |  |  | then |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent officer=Eventuality |
| 2 | **provide** | to-infinitive | Heaven *not said here* |  | me |  |  | with a suitable lodging at Heaven's expense | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Recipient with lodging=Theme |
| 3 | **send** | past | Heaven *not said here* | slaves |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wait** | to-infinitive | slaves *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon me | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon i=Location |
| 5 | **carry** | infinitive | slaves *not said here* | my raft and my bales |  | my new dwelling place |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent raft=Theme to place=Destination |

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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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