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title: The ladies replied with words of welcome, and they were all about to… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The ladies replied with words of welcome, and they were all about to seat themselves when the eyes of the Calenders fell on the porter, whose dress was not so very unlike their own, though he still wore all the hair that nature had given him. " Who acts: Ladies, dress, Amina. A sentence of «The Arab
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 58

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The ladies replied with words of welcome, and they were all about to seat themselves when the eyes of the Calenders fell on the porter, whose dress was not so very unlike their own, though he still wore all the hair that nature had given him. "

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**Who acts:** Ladies, dress, Amina · **What happens:** reply, be, fall, not be, wear, give · **To what, where:** ladies, seat, porter, hair, nature, 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 (Ladies, dress, 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:pg128:6:58
# text = The ladies replied with words of welcome, and they were all about to seat themselves when the eyes of the Calenders fell on the porter, whose dress was not so very unlike their own, though he still wore all the hair that nature had given him. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
3	replied	reply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	welcome	welcome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	15	nmod:unmarked	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Calenders	calender	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	porter	porter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
33	very	very	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
34	unlike	unlike	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	still	still	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
42	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	44	det:predet	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
45	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	obj	_	_
46	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj:pass	_	_
47	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	acl:relcl	_	_
49	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
51	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | participle |  | the ladies and seat *not said here* |  |  |  | with words of welcome | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with word=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Ladies *= lady* | seat |  |  |  | Ladies *= lady* *nmod:unmarked*; about *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fall** | past | the ladies and seat |  |  | the porter |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on porter=Location |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | dress |  |  |  |  | own *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **wear** | past | Amina | all hair |  |  | still |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hair=Source |
| 6 | **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | nature | Amina |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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