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title: Moreover, the king treated me with special favour, and in consequenc… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Moreover, the king treated me with special favour, and in consequence of this everyone, whether at the court or in the town, sought to make life pleasant to me. Who acts: king. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 10

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Moreover, the king treated me with special favour, and in consequence of this everyone, whether at the court or in the town, sought to make life pleasant to me.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** treat, seek, make · **To what, where:** me, consequence, court, life

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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:pg128:16:10
# text = Moreover, the king treated me with special favour, and in consequence of this everyone, whether at the court or in the town, sought to make life pleasant to me.
1	Moreover	moreover	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	treated	treat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	consequence	consequence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
18	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
27	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
30	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **treat** | past | the king |  | me | consequence of everyone |  | with special favour; moreover *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient with favour=Theme |
| 2 | **seek** | participle | the king *not said here* |  |  | the court or the town |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at court=Location |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | life |  |  |  | pleasant *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset life=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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