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title: So turning to the chief of the eunuchs he said, "Go and beg my daugh… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: So turning to the chief of the eunuchs he said, "Go and beg my daughter, Queen of Beauty, to come here. Who acts: Sultan. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 46

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So turning to the chief of the eunuchs he said, "Go and beg my daughter, Queen of Beauty, to come here.

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**Who acts:** Sultan · **What happens:** turn, say, go, beg, come · **To what, where:** chief, Queen, daughter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan), 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:pg128:10:46
# text = So turning to the chief of the eunuchs he said, "Go and beg my daughter, Queen of Beauty, to come here.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	eunuchs	eunuch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	beg	beg	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
25	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | gerund | Sultan *not said here* |  |  | the chief of the eunuchs |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to chief=Trajectory |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Sultan |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Queen of Beauty |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | my daughter |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | here |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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