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title: On the return of the Indian with meats of various kinds, she began t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 49

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On the return of the Indian with meats of various kinds, she began to eat voraciously, and soon had regained sufficient courage to reply with spirit to his insolent remarks.

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**Who acts:** Princess, horse · **What happens:** begin, eat, regain, reply, remark · **To what, where:** return, sufficient courage

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, horse), 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:pg128:39:49
# text = On the return of the Indian with meats of various kinds, she began to eat voraciously, and soon had regained sufficient courage to reply with spirit to his insolent remarks.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	meats	meat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	voraciously	voraciously	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	regained	regain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
23	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	reply	reply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	insolent	insolent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Princess |  |  | the return of the Indian |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | voraciously *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **regain** | past · perfect | Princess *not said here* | sufficient courage |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme |
| 4 | **reply** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with spirit; to horse's insolent remarks | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with spirit=Eventuality to remark=Theme |
| 5 | **remark** |  | horse |  |  |  |  |  | nom remark «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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