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title: We soon made friends, and after we had asked each other the usual qu… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: We soon made friends, and after we had asked each other the usual questions, we produced the food we had with us, and satisfied our hunger. Who acts: We, our. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 35

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We soon made friends, and after we had asked each other the usual questions, we produced the food we had with us, and satisfied our hunger.

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**Who acts:** We, our · **What happens:** make, ask, produce, have, hunger · **To what, where:** friends, food

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, our), 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:pg128:33:35
# text = We soon made friends, and after we had asked each other the usual questions, we produced the food we had with us, and satisfied our hunger.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
7	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	produced	produce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	_
28	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | We | friends |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Product |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past · perfect | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **produce** | past | we | the food |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Result |
| 4 | **have** | past | we | the food *not said here* |  |  |  | with us | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
| 5 | **hunger** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom hunger «state intransitive»: 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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