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title: Indeed, after ten years, during which this state of things had not c… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Indeed, after ten years, during which this state of things had not ceased to trouble him, Schahriar cut off the country of Great Tartary from the Persian Empire and made his brother king. Who acts: Schahriar. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1, with its
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 48

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Indeed, after ten years, during which this state of things had not ceased to trouble him, Schahriar cut off the country of Great Tartary from the Persian Empire and made his brother king.

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**Who acts:** Schahriar · **What happens:** not cease, cut off, make · **To what, where:** state, country, brother king

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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), 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:pg128:1:48
# text = Indeed, after ten years, during which this state of things had not ceased to trouble him, Schahriar cut off the country of Great Tartary from the Persian Empire and made his brother king.
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
7	during	during	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	ceased	cease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
20	Schahriar	Schahriar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
27	Tartary	Tartary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **cease** | past · perfect · passive |  | this state of things |  |  | during ten years |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cut off** | past | Schahriar | the country of Great Tartary from the Persian Empire |  |  | year | indeed *property* | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector country=Eventuality |
| 3 | **make** | past | Schahriar *not said here* | race's brother king |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset king=Product |

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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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