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title: Scheih Ibrahim disappeared again, and soon returned with a table spr… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Scheih Ibrahim disappeared again, and soon returned with a table spread with cups of gold and silver, and every sort of beautiful fruit. Who acts: Scheih. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 79

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Scheih Ibrahim disappeared again, and soon returned with a table spread with cups of gold and silver, and every sort of beautiful fruit.

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**Who acts:** Scheih · **What happens:** disappear, return, spread, sort · **To what, where:** table, beautiful fruit

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scheih), 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:pg128:29:79
# text = Scheih Ibrahim disappeared again, and soon returned with a table spread with cups of gold and silver, and every sort of beautiful fruit.
1	Scheih	Scheih	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Ibrahim	Ibrahim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disappear** | past | Scheih |  |  |  | again |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **return** | participle | Scheih *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a table; soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **spread** | participle |  | a table *not said here* |  |  |  | with cups of gold and silver | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sort** |  |  | beautiful fruit |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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