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title: At last, in a room richly decorated with paintings, he saw an old ma… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: At last, in a room richly decorated with paintings, he saw an old man with a long white beard, sitting on a sofa, who received him with such kindness that my brother was emboldened to make his petition. Who acts: Barmecide. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, p
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 96

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At last, in a room richly decorated with paintings, he saw an old man with a long white beard, sitting on a sofa, who received him with such kindness that my brother was emboldened to make his petition.

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**Who acts:** Barmecide · **What happens:** decorate, see, sit, receive, embolden, make · **To what, where:** last room, old man, sofa, Barmecide, brother, petition

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Barmecide), 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:pg128:21:96
# text = At last, in a room richly decorated with paintings, he saw an old man with a long white beard, sitting on a sofa, who received him with such kindness that my brother was emboldened to make his petition.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
7	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	decorated	decorate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	obj	_	_
35	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	emboldened	embolden	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl:relcl	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	advcl	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	petition	petition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decorate** | participle |  | a last room *not said here* |  |  |  | with paintings; richly *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with painting=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | Barmecide | a old man |  | a last room |  | with a long white beard | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sit** | gerund | Barmecide *not said here* |  |  | a sofa |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sofa=Location |
| 4 | **receive** | past |  | Barmecide |  |  |  | with such kindness | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **embolden** | past · passive |  | my brother |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer that=Result |
| 6 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | Barmecide's petition |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset petition=Product |
| 7 | **petition** |  | Barmecide |  |  |  |  |  | nom petition «communication 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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