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title: We all three sat down to table and amused ourselves with talking of… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: We all three sat down to table and amused ourselves with talking of all sorts of indifferent things, and with drinking each other's health. Who acts: We. 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 61

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We all three sat down to table and amused ourselves with talking of all sorts of indifferent things, and with drinking each other's health.

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** sit down, amuse, talk, drink, sort · **To what, where:** ourselves, health, indifferent things

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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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg128:650`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:7:61
# text = We all three sat down to table and amused ourselves with talking of all sorts of indifferent things, and with drinking each other's health.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	det	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	nummod	_	_
4	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	amused	amuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	advcl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	indifferent	indifferent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	conj	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | past | We |  |  |  |  | to table | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **amuse** | past | We *not said here* | ourselves |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ourselves=Experiencer |
| 3 | **talk** | gerund | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of all sorts of indifferent things | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **drink** | gerund | We *not said here* | each other's health |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent health=Patient |
| 5 | **sort** |  |  | indifferent things |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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