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title: And after telling some stories to prove his point, he ended by entre… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: And after telling some stories to prove his point, he ended by entreating them to let him stay and make a fourth at their dinner. Who acts: man. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 30

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And after telling some stories to prove his point, he ended by entreating them to let him stay and make a fourth at their dinner.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** tell, prove, end, entreat, let, stay · **To what, where:** stories, point, women, man, fourth, dinner · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (man), 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:pg128:6:30
# text = And after telling some stories to prove his point, he ended by entreating them to let him stay and make a fourth at their dinner.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	entreating	entreat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fourth	fourth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | man *not said here* | some stories |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
| 2 | **prove** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | man's point |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Theme |
| 3 | **end** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **entreat** | gerund | man *not said here* | women *= woman* |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **let** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **stay** | infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **make** | infinitive | man *not said here* | a fourth |  | women's dinner |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fourth=Product |
| 8 | **point** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition 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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