--- title: The King of Serendib received with satisfaction the assurance of the… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: The King of Serendib received with satisfaction the assurance of the Caliph's friendliness toward him, and now my task being accomplished I was anxious to depart, but it was some time before the king would think of letting me go. Who acts: King, I, task, me. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Enterta --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/18/63/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/18/) / 63 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 63 The King of Serendib received with satisfaction the assurance of the Caliph's friendliness toward him, and now my task being accomplished I was anxious to depart, but it was some time before the king would think of letting me go. **Who acts:** King, I, task, me, friendliness, my · **What happens:** receive, accomplish, be, depart, think, let · **To what, where:** assurance, task, time, me This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, I, task, me), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:18:63 # text = The King of Serendib received with satisfaction the assurance of the Caliph's friendliness toward him, and now my task being accomplished I was anxious to depart, but it was some time before the king would think of letting me go. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Serendib Serendib PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 received receive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 satisfaction satisfaction NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 assurance assurance NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Caliph Caliph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 friendliness friendliness NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 15 toward toward ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 20 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 task task NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 accomplished accomplish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 anxious anxious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 parataxis _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 depart depart VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 34 det _ _ 34 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 35 before before SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 38 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 acl _ _ 40 of of SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 41 letting let VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 advcl _ _ 42 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **receive** | past | the King of Serendib | the assurance of the Caliph's friendliness toward Caliph | | | | with satisfaction | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assurance=Theme | | 2 | **accomplish** | gerund · passive | | my task | | | now | | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 3 | **is** | past | I | | | | | anxious *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **depart** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | past | task | some time | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* | would | the king | some time *not said here* | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot time=Theme | | 7 | **let** | gerund | the king *not said here* | me | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **go** | infinitive | me *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **assure** | | the Caliph's friendliness toward Caliph | | | | | | nom assurance «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | | 10 | **task** | | my | | | | | | nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/18/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/18/64/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/18/)