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title: At a word from Zobeida, Sadie and Amina took the basket from the por… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: At a word from Zobeida, Sadie and Amina took the basket from the porter, who was glad enough to be relieved from its weight; and when it was emptied, paid him handsomely for its use. Who acts: porter, basket. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6, with its
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 25

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At a word from Zobeida, Sadie and Amina took the basket from the porter, who was glad enough to be relieved from its weight; and when it was emptied, paid him handsomely for its use.

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**Who acts:** porter, basket · **What happens:** take, be, relieve, empty, pay, use · **To what, where:** basket, word, Amina

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (porter, basket), 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:pg128:6:25
# text = At a word from Zobeida, Sadie and Amina took the basket from the porter, who was glad enough to be relieved from its weight; and when it was emptied, paid him handsomely for its use.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Zobeida	Zobeida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Sadie	Sadie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Amina	Amina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	porter	porter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
20	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	relieved	relieve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	32	mark	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	emptied	empty	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	handsomely	handsomely	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past |  | the basket |  | a word from Zobeida and Sadie and Amina |  | from the porter | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent basket=Theme at word=Asset from porter=Source |
| 2 | **is** | past | the porter |  |  |  |  | enough, glad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **relieve** | to-infinitive · passive | the porter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from basket's weight | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: from weight=Theme |
| 4 | **empty** | past · passive |  | basket |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |
| 5 | **pay** | past |  | Amina |  |  |  | for basket's use; handsomely *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Asset for use=Theme |
| 6 | **use** |  | basket |  |  |  |  |  | nom use «act 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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