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title: The bishop was presently banished for being on the side of Prince Ch… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The bishop was presently banished for being on the side of Prince Charlie's father, and had leisure to repent of being so solemn. Who acts: leisure. 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 39

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The bishop was presently banished for being on the side of Prince Charlie's father, and had leisure to repent of being so solemn.

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**Who acts:** leisure · **What happens:** banish, be, have, repent · **To what, where:** bishop, leisure

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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 (leisure), 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:pg128:1:39
# text = The bishop was presently banished for being on the side of Prince Charlie's father, and had leisure to repent of being so solemn.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bishop	bishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	banished	banish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Charlie	Charlie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	leisure	leisure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	repent	repent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	cop	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	solemn	solemn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **banish** | past · passive |  | the bishop |  |  |  | presently *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for the side; of Prince Charlie's father | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past |  | leisure |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **repent** | to-infinitive | leisure *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | solemn *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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