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title: Amina understood her sister's meaning, and collecting the dishes, gl… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Amina understood her sister's meaning, and collecting the dishes, glasses, and musical instruments, she carried them away, while Sadie swept the hall and put everything in order. Who acts: Amina, seat, Sadie, sister. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6, 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 85

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Amina understood her sister's meaning, and collecting the dishes, glasses, and musical instruments, she carried them away, while Sadie swept the hall and put everything in order.

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**Who acts:** Amina, seat, Sadie, sister · **What happens:** understand, collect, carry away, sweep, put, mean · **To what, where:** meaning, dishes, hall, everything, order

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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, seat, Sadie, sister), 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:pg128:6:85
# text = Amina understood her sister's meaning, and collecting the dishes, glasses, and musical instruments, she carried them away, while Sadie swept the hall and put everything in order.
1	Amina	Amina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	collecting	collect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	musical	musical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	Sadie	Sadie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
31	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	30	obj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **understand** | past | Amina | seat's sister's meaning |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer meaning=Stimulus |
| 2 | **collect** | gerund | Amina *not said here* | the dishes and glasses and musical instruments |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Theme |
| 3 | **carry away** | past | seat | dishes *= dish* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **sweep** | past | Sadie | the hall |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Trajectory |
| 5 | **put** | infinitive | Sadie *not said here* | everything |  | order |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent everything=Theme in order=Destination |
| 6 | **mean** |  | seat's sister |  |  |  |  |  | nom meaning «communication 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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