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title: The Sultan was so much struck by the circumstances that he ordered h… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sultan was so much struck by the circumstances that he ordered his private historian to write down an exact account of what had passed, so that in the years to come the miraculous escape of the four men who had thought themselves murderers might never be forgotten. Who acts: circumstances, Sulta
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 27

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The Sultan was so much struck by the circumstances that he ordered his private historian to write down an exact account of what had passed, so that in the years to come the miraculous escape of the four men who had thought themselves murderers might never be forgotten.

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**Who acts:** circumstances, Sultan, four men · **What happens:** strike, order, write down, pass, come, think · **To what, where:** Sultan, circumstances, exact account, miraculous escape

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (circumstances, Sultan, four men), 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:pg128:20:27
# text = The Sultan was so much struck by the circumstances that he ordered his private historian to write down an exact account of what had passed, so that in the years to come the miraculous escape of the four men who had thought themselves murderers might never be forgotten.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	historian	historian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nmod	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	miraculous	miraculous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	escape	escape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
40	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
41	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
42	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	40	acl:relcl	_	_
44	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	43	obj	_	_
45	murderers	murderer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	_
46	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
47	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	49	advmod	_	_
48	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	aux:pass	_	_
49	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past · passive | the circumstances | the Sultan |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument |
| 2 | **order** | past | Sultan | the circumstances |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **write down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the circumstances *not said here* | a exact account |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme |
| 4 | **pass** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | to-infinitive | the circumstances *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past · perfect | the four men | circumstances *= circumstance* |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme murderer=Attribute |
| 7 | **not** **forget** | might · passive |  | the miraculous escape of the four men |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **escape** |  | the four men |  |  |  |  |  | nom escape «act 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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