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title: Schahzaman sent noble gifts as thank offerings to all the mosques an… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Schahzaman sent noble gifts as thank offerings to all the mosques and religious houses, and great rejoicings were celebrated in honour of the birth of the little prince, who was so beautiful that he was named Camaralzaman, or "Moon of the Century." Who acts: Schahzaman, noble gifts, honour. A senten
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 69

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Schahzaman sent noble gifts as thank offerings to all the mosques and religious houses, and great rejoicings were celebrated in honour of the birth of the little prince, who was so beautiful that he was named Camaralzaman, or "Moon of the Century."

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**Who acts:** Schahzaman, noble gifts, honour · **What happens:** send, thank, celebrate, be, name, honour · **To what, where:** offerings, great rejoicings, honour, Schahzaman, birth

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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 (Schahzaman, noble gifts, honour), 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:pg128:22:69
# text = Schahzaman sent noble gifts as thank offerings to all the mosques and religious houses, and great rejoicings were celebrated in honour of the birth of the little prince, who was so beautiful that he was named Camaralzaman, or "Moon of the Century."
1	Schahzaman	Schahzaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	offerings	offering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mosques	mosque	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	rejoicings	rejoicing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	advcl	_	_
39	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	Century	Century	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | Schahzaman |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | noble gifts | offerings |  |  |  | to all mosques and religious houses | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offering=Theme |
| 3 | **celebrate** | past · passive |  | great rejoicings |  | honour of the birth of the little prince |  | Moon of the Century *obl* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | honour of the birth of the little prince |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **name** | past · passive |  | Schahzaman |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **honour** |  |  | the birth of the little prince |  |  |  |  | nom honour «state 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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