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title: When we had finished eating, he said to me, "My cousin, you would ne… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: When we had finished eating, he said to me, "My cousin, you would never guess what I have been doing since your last visit to us! Who acts: we, cousin, your. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 55

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When we had finished eating, he said to me, "My cousin, you would never guess what I have been doing since your last visit to us!

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**Who acts:** we, cousin, your · **What happens:** finish, eat, say, not guess, do, visit · **To what, where:** me, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, cousin, your), 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:pg128:7:55
# text = When we had finished eating, he said to me, "My cousin, you would never guess what I have been doing since your last visit to us!
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
5	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	guess	guess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	obj	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	aux	_	_
24	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	ccomp	_	_
25	since	since	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past · perfect | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | cousin |  | me |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient |
| 4 | **not** **guess** *in a quote* | would | My cousin |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | present · perfect · progressive | cousin |  | us |  | since your last visit |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 6 | **visit** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom visit «act 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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