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title: The three Calenders bowed low on entering, and thanked the ladies fo… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The three Calenders bowed low on entering, and thanked the ladies for their kindness and hospitality. Who acts: three Calenders. 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 57

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The three Calenders bowed low on entering, and thanked the ladies for their kindness and hospitality.

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**Who acts:** three Calenders · **What happens:** bow, thank · **To what, where:** entering, ladies

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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 (three Calenders), 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:pg128:6:57
# text = The three Calenders bowed low on entering, and thanked the ladies for their kindness and hospitality.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	Calenders	calender	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bowed	bow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	entering	entering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bow** | past | the three Calenders |  |  | entering |  | low *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on entering=Location |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | the three Calenders *not said here* |  | the ladies |  |  | for Calenders's kindness and hospitality | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent lady=Theme for kindness=Attribute |

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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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