--- title: Abdallah, by a natural motion, made use of his right; and the Dervis… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics description: Abdallah, by a natural motion, made use of his right; and the Dervises, instead of becoming heaps of riches, immediately drew from beneath their robes each a formidable club, with which they struck him almost dead, and disappeared, carrying with them all his treasures, the camels, the horse, the sla --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/22/65/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Oriental tales, for the entertainment…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/) / [Ingratitude Punished.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/22/) / 65 # Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 65 Abdallah, by a natural motion, made use of his right; and the Dervises, instead of becoming heaps of riches, immediately drew from beneath their robes each a formidable club, with which they struck him almost dead, and disappeared, carrying with them all his treasures, the camels, the horse, the slave, and the candlestick. **Who acts:** natural motion, Dervises, Abounadar · **What happens:** make, become, draw, strike, disappear, carry · **To what, where:** use, heaps, Abounadar, treasures, right This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Ingratitude Punished.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (natural motion, Dervises, Abounadar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62868:22:65 # text = Abdallah, by a natural motion, made use of his right; and the Dervises, instead of becoming heaps of riches, immediately drew from beneath their robes each a formidable club, with which they struck him almost dead, and disappeared, carrying with them all his treasures, the camels, the horse, the slave, and the candlestick. 1 Abdallah Abdallah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 by by ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 motion motion NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 9 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Dervises dervis NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 20 mark _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 18 fixed _ _ 20 becoming become VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 21 heaps heap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 riches rich NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 beneath beneath ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 robes robe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 31 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 34 det _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 formidable formidable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 club club NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 obl _ _ 38 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 struck strike VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 40 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 almost almost ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 disappeared disappear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 47 carrying carry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 45 advcl _ _ 48 with with ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 obl _ _ 50 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 52 det:predet _ _ 51 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 52 nmod:poss _ _ 52 treasures treasure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 camels camel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 57 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 58 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 61 slave slave NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ _ 63 and and CCONJ CC _ 65 cc _ _ 64 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 65 candlestick candlestick NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 66 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | participle | a natural motion Abdallah and the Dervises and the candlestick *not said here* | use of Abounadar's right | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset use=Product | | 2 | **become** | gerund | the Dervises *not said here* | heaps of riches | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient heap=Result | | 3 | **draw** | past | | | | | | from Dervises's robes each formidable club; immediately *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from robe=Co-Patient | | 4 | **strike** | past | Dervises *= dervis* | Abounadar | | | | which *obl* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with which=Instrument | | 5 | **disappear** | past | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **carry** | gerund | | Abounadar's treasures and the camels and the horse and the slave | | | | with Dervises *= dervis* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | | 8 | **use** | | | Abounadar's right | | | | | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient | | 9 | **treasure** | | Abounadar | | | | | | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/22/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/22/66/) - ↑ back to [Ingratitude Punished.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/22/)