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title: "At last an embassy came from a king so rich and powerful that the K… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "At last an embassy came from a king so rich and powerful that the King of China felt constrained to urge this suit on his daughter. Who acts: King. 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 37

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"At last an embassy came from a king so rich and powerful that the King of China felt constrained to urge this suit on his daughter.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** come, feel, constrain, urge · **To what, where:** last embassy, suit

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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 (King), 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:pg128:23:37
# text = "At last an embassy came from a king so rich and powerful that the King of China felt constrained to urge this suit on his daughter.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	At	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	embassy	embassy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
20	constrained	constrain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	xcomp	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	urge	urge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	suit	suit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  | a last embassy |  | from a king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from king=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **feel** *in a quote* | past | the King of China |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **constrain** *in a quote* | participle | the King of China *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Causer clause=Goal |
| 4 | **urge** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the King of China *not said here* | this suit |  |  |  | on China's daughter | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suit=Recipient |

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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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