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title: When the usual hour arrived the grand-vizir conducted Scheherazade t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: When the usual hour arrived the grand-vizir conducted Scheherazade to the palace, and left her alone with the Sultan, who bade her raise her veil and was amazed at her beauty. Who acts: usual hour, grand vizir, Sultan, Dinarzade. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Open
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 100

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When the usual hour arrived the grand-vizir conducted Scheherazade to the palace, and left her alone with the Sultan, who bade her raise her veil and was amazed at her beauty.

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**Who acts:** usual hour, grand vizir, Sultan, Dinarzade · **What happens:** arrive, conduct, leave, bade, raise, be · **To what, where:** Scheherazade, palace, Dinarzade, veil, beauty

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (usual hour, grand vizir, Sultan, Dinarzade), 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:pg128:1:100
# text = When the usual hour arrived the grand-vizir conducted Scheherazade to the palace, and left her alone with the Sultan, who bade her raise her veil and was amazed at her beauty.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Scheherazade	Scheherazade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	ccomp	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	amazed	amazed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | the usual hour |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **conduct** | past | the grand vizir | Scheherazade |  | the palace |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent scheherazade=Theme to palace=Destination |
| 3 | **leave** | past | the grand vizir *not said here* |  | Dinarzade |  |  | with the Sultan; alone *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Recipient with sultan=Theme |
| 4 | **bade** | past | the Sultan |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **raise** | infinitive | Dinarzade | Dinarzade's veil |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | the grand vizir *not said here* |  |  | Dinarzade's beauty |  | amazed *property* | tree rules |

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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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