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title: His tables were always covered with delicacies; wines of every vinta… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: His tables were always covered with delicacies; wines of every vintage sparkled in his bowels, and his lamps scattered perfumes. Who acts: lamps. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almamoulin., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 26

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His tables were always covered with delicacies; wines of every vintage sparkled in his bowels, and his lamps scattered perfumes.

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**Who acts:** lamps · **What happens:** cover, sparkle, scatter · **To what, where:** tables, vintage, bowels, perfumes

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almamoulin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lamps), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62868:18:26
# text = His tables were always covered with delicacies; wines of every vintage sparkled in his bowels, and his lamps scattered perfumes.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	tables	table	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	delicacies	delicacy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	wines	wine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	vintage	vintage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	bowels	bowel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	perfumes	perfume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | past · passive |  | Almamoulin's tables |  |  |  | with delicacies; wines of every vintage *obl*; always *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with delicacy=Theme |
| 2 | **sparkle** | participle |  | every vintage *not said here* |  | Almamoulin's bowels |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bowel=Location |
| 3 | **scatter** | past | Almamoulin's lamps | perfumes |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent perfume=Theme |

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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:** «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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