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title: So the chief of police ordered a gallows to be erected, and sent cri… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: So the chief of police ordered a gallows to be erected, and sent criers to proclaim in every street in the city that a Christian was to be hanged that day for having killed a Mussulman. Who acts: chief, criers. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19, with 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 89

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So the chief of police ordered a gallows to be erected, and sent criers to proclaim in every street in the city that a Christian was to be hanged that day for having killed a Mussulman.

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**Who acts:** chief, criers · **What happens:** order, erect, send, proclaim, hange, kill · **To what, where:** gallows, criers, street, Christian, Mussulman

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief, criers), 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:pg128:19:89
# text = So the chief of police ordered a gallows to be erected, and sent criers to proclaim in every street in the city that a Christian was to be hanged that day for having killed a Mussulman.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	gallows	gallows	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	erected	erect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	criers	crier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	proclaim	proclaim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Christian	Christian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	hanged	hange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	_
31	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	aux	_	_
35	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Mussulman	mussulman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | the chief of police | a gallows |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gallows=Theme |
| 2 | **erect** | to-infinitive · passive | the chief of police *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **send** | past | the chief of police *not said here* | criers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **proclaim** | to-infinitive | criers *not said here* |  |  | every street |  | in the city | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hange** | past · passive | criers *not said here* | a Christian |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **kill** | gerund · perfect | criers *not said here* | a Mussulman |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mussulman=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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