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title: Of the choicest of my goods I prepared a present for King Mihrage, w… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Of the choicest of my goods I prepared a present for King Mihrage, who was at first amazed, having known that I had lost my all. Who acts: choicest, King, I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 82

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Of the choicest of my goods I prepared a present for King Mihrage, who was at first amazed, having known that I had lost my all.

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**Who acts:** choicest, King, I · **What happens:** prepare, be, have, know, lose · **To what, where:** present, all

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (choicest, King, I), 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:pg128:13:82
# text = Of the choicest of my goods I prepared a present for King Mihrage, who was at first amazed, having known that I had lost my all.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	choicest	choice	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	obl	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	Mihrage	Mihrage	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	obl	_	_
19	amazed	amazed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
22	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	xcomp	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prepare** | past | the choicest | a present |  |  |  | for King | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent present=Product for king=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **is** | past | King |  |  |  |  | amazed *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | the choicest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | participle | the choicest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **lose** | past · perfect | I | all |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=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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