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title: So saying she shook Camaralzaman so violently that nothing but the s… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: So saying she shook Camaralzaman so violently that nothing but the spells of Maimoune could have prevented his waking. Who acts: lady, Camaralzaman. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 104

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So saying she shook Camaralzaman so violently that nothing but the spells of Maimoune could have prevented his waking.

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**Who acts:** lady, Camaralzaman · **What happens:** say, shake, prevent, spell, wake · **To what, where:** Camaralzaman, nothing, Maimoune · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, Camaralzaman), 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:pg128:23:104
# text = So saying she shook Camaralzaman so violently that nothing but the spells of Maimoune could have prevented his waking.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	violently	violently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	spells	spell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Maimoune	Maimoune	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux	_	_
17	prevented	prevent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	waking	waking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shake** | past | lady | Camaralzaman |  |  |  | violently *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent camaralzaman=Patient |
| 3 | **prevent** | could · perfect · passive |  | nothing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **spell** |  |  | Maimoune |  |  |  |  | nom spell «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **wake** |  | Camaralzaman |  |  |  |  |  | nom waking «cognition intransitive»: 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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