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title: When the Calenders had satisfied their hunger, they offered to play… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Calenders had satisfied their hunger, they offered to play to their hostesses, if there were any instruments in the house. Who acts: Calenders, instruments. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 64

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When the Calenders had satisfied their hunger, they offered to play to their hostesses, if there were any instruments in the house.

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**Who acts:** Calenders, instruments · **What happens:** satisfy, offer, play, be, hunger · **To what, where:** Calenders

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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 (Calenders, instruments), 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:pg128:6:64
# text = When the Calenders had satisfied their hunger, they offered to play to their hostesses, if there were any instruments in the house.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Calenders	calender	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	satisfied	satisfy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	hostesses	hostess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **satisfy** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Calenders |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer hunger=Result |
| 2 | **offer** | past | Calenders *= calender* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **play** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Calenders *= calender* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Calenders's hostesses | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | any instruments in the house |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hunger** |  | Calenders *= calender* |  |  |  |  |  | nom hunger «state intransitive»: 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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