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title: Schahriar consented to Scheherazade's petition and Dinarzade was sen… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Schahriar consented to Scheherazade's petition and Dinarzade was sent for. Who acts: Schahriar, Scheherazade. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 104

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Schahriar consented to Scheherazade's petition and Dinarzade was sent for.

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**Who acts:** Schahriar, Scheherazade · **What happens:** consent, send, petition · **To what, where:** Dinarzade

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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 (Schahriar, Scheherazade), 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:pg128:1:104
# text = Schahriar consented to Scheherazade's petition and Dinarzade was sent for.
1	Schahriar	Schahriar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	consented	consent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	Scheherazade	Scheherazade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	petition	petition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	Dinarzade	Dinarzade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consent** | past | Schahriar |  |  |  |  | to Scheherazade's petition | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to petition=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | past · passive |  | Dinarzade |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **petition** |  | Scheherazade |  |  |  |  |  | nom petition «communication 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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