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title: Whilst he was still a youth the king, his father, who loved him dear… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Whilst he was still a youth the king, his father, who loved him dearly, had some thoughts of abdicating in his favour. Who acts: man, father, thoughts. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 71

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Whilst he was still a youth the king, his father, who loved him dearly, had some thoughts of abdicating in his favour.

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**Who acts:** man, father, thoughts · **What happens:** be, love, have, abdicate, favour · **To what, where:** youth, man, thoughts, favour

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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 (man, father, thoughts), 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:pg128:22:71
# text = Whilst he was still a youth the king, his father, who loved him dearly, had some thoughts of abdicating in his favour.
1	Whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	dearly	dearly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	abdicating	abdicate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | man | a youth |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **love** | past | man's father | man |  |  |  | dearly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **have** | past |  | some thoughts |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient |
| 4 | **abdicate** | gerund | some thoughts *not said here* |  |  | man's favour |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **favour** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom favour «feeling transitive»: poss=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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