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title: The Sultan and all those who saw this operation did not know which t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sultan and all those who saw this operation did not know which to admire most, the constitution of the hunchback who had apparently been dead for a whole night and most of one day, or the skill of the barber, whom everyone now began to look upon as a great man. Who acts: operation, hunchback, mo
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 56

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The Sultan and all those who saw this operation did not know which to admire most, the constitution of the hunchback who had apparently been dead for a whole night and most of one day, or the skill of the barber, whom everyone now began to look upon as a great man.

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**Who acts:** operation, hunchback, most, everyone · **What happens:** see, not know, admire, be, skill, begin · **To what, where:** skill, hunchback · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (operation, hunchback, most, everyone), 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:pg128:22:56
# text = The Sultan and all those who saw this operation did not know which to admire most, the constitution of the hunchback who had apparently been dead for a whole night and most of one day, or the skill of the barber, whom everyone now began to look upon as a great man.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
5	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	conj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	operation	operation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	admire	admire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
16	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	apparently	apparently	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	cop	_	_
27	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	acl:relcl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
33	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	40	nsubj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	barber	barber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	48	obj	_	_
46	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	48	nsubj	_	_
47	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	48	advmod	_	_
48	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	xcomp	_	_
51	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
52	as	as	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | this operation |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **admire** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past · perfect | the hunchback |  |  |  | night | apparently, dead *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **skill** |  | most of one day |  |  |  |  | of the barber | tree rules |
| 6 | **begin** | past | everyone | the skill |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **look** | to-infinitive | everyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon a great man | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon man=Theme |
| 8 | **constitute** |  |  | the hunchback |  |  |  |  | nom constitution «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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