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title: Her father had given her the best masters in philosophy, medicine, h… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Her father had given her the best masters in philosophy, medicine, history and the fine arts, and besides all this, her beauty excelled that of any girl in the kingdom of Persia. Who acts: father, beauty. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1, with its dep
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 58

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Her father had given her the best masters in philosophy, medicine, history and the fine arts, and besides all this, her beauty excelled that of any girl in the kingdom of Persia.

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**Who acts:** father, beauty · **What happens:** give, excel · **To what, where:** best masters, Dinarzade, philosophy, kingdom

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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 (father, beauty), 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:pg128:1:58
# text = Her father had given her the best masters in philosophy, medicine, history and the fine arts, and besides all this, her beauty excelled that of any girl in the kingdom of Persia.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	masters	master	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	philosophy	philosophy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	arts	art	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
23	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	excelled	excel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
31	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	advcl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Persia	Persia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · perfect | Dinarzade's father | the best masters | Dinarzade | philosophy and medicine and history and the fine arts |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient master=Theme |
| 2 | **excel** | past | Dinarzade's beauty |  |  | the kingdom of Persia |  | besides this | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in kingdom=Eventuality |

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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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