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title: When they had eaten all the genie had brought, Aladdin sold one of t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: When they had eaten all the genie had brought, Aladdin sold one of the silver plates, and so on till none were left. Who acts: virtues, Aladdin. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 39

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When they had eaten all the genie had brought, Aladdin sold one of the silver plates, and so on till none were left.

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**Who acts:** virtues, Aladdin · **What happens:** eat, bring, sell, leave · **To what, where:** genie, one, none

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (virtues, Aladdin), 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:pg128:31:39
# text = When they had eaten all the genie had brought, Aladdin sold one of the silver plates, and so on till none were left.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	genie	genie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	till	till	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	25	obl	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past · perfect | virtues *= virtue* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive |  | all genie |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **sell** | past | Aladdin | one of the silver plates |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | past · passive | Aladdin *not said here* |  |  | none |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: on none=Location |

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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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