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title: After the first few mouthfuls Amina poured some wine into a golden c… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: After the first few mouthfuls Amina poured some wine into a golden cup. Who acts: Amina. 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 34

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After the first few mouthfuls Amina poured some wine into a golden cup.

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**Who acts:** Amina · **What happens:** pour · **To what, where:** wine, golden cup

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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 (Amina), 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:pg128:6:34
# text = After the first few mouthfuls Amina poured some wine into a golden cup.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
4	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mouthfuls	mouthful	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
6	Amina	Amina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	poured	pour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pour** | past | Amina | some wine |  | a golden cup | after the first few mouthfuls |  | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent wine=Theme into cup=Destination |

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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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