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title: The chief of police, who was present to see that everything was in o… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The chief of police, who was present to see that everything was in order, put several questions to the purveyor, who told him the whole story of the death of the hunchback, and how he had carried the body to the place where it had been found by the Christian merchant. Who acts: police, chief, order,
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 94

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The chief of police, who was present to see that everything was in order, put several questions to the purveyor, who told him the whole story of the death of the hunchback, and how he had carried the body to the place where it had been found by the Christian merchant.

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**Who acts:** police, chief, order, purveyor, Christian merchant, hunchback · **What happens:** be, see, put, tell, carry, find · **To what, where:** everything, order, several questions, whole story, purveyor, body · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (police, chief, order, purveyor), 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:pg128:19:94
# text = The chief of police, who was present to see that everything was in order, put several questions to the purveyor, who told him the whole story of the death of the hunchback, and how he had carried the body to the place where it had been found by the Christian merchant.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	10	obj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
18	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	purveyor	purveyor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	41	advmod	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
47	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	51	advmod	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj:pass	_	_
49	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
50	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	51	aux:pass	_	_
51	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	acl:relcl	_	_
52	by	by	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | police |  |  |  |  | present *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | police *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | the chief of police |  |  | order |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **put** | infinitive | order *not said here* | several questions |  |  |  | to the purveyor | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Goal |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the purveyor | the whole story of the death of the hunchback | purveyor |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic |
| 6 | **carry** | past · perfect | purveyor | the body |  | the place |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme to place=Destination |
| 7 | **find** | past · perfect · passive | the Christian merchant | chief |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
| 8 | **die** |  | the hunchback |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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