--- title: At length a day came when the Sultan summoned him before the council… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: At length a day came when the Sultan summoned him before the council, and there informed him that not only his own wishes but the good of the empire demanded his marriage, and desired him to give his answer before the assembled ministers. Who acts: Sultan, own wishes, son. A sentence of «The Arabian --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/23/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/23/) / 4 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 4 At length a day came when the Sultan summoned him before the council, and there informed him that not only his own wishes but the good of the empire demanded his marriage, and desired him to give his answer before the assembled ministers. **Who acts:** Sultan, own wishes, son · **What happens:** come, summon, inform, demand, desire, give · **To what, where:** length, son, marriage, answer 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 (Sultan, own wishes, son), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:23:4 # text = At length a day came when the Sultan summoned him before the council, and there informed him that not only his own wishes but the good of the empire demanded his marriage, and desired him to give his answer before the assembled ministers. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod:unmarked _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 summoned summon VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 before before ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 17 informed inform VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 21 only only ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 wishes wish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 empire empire NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 demanded demand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 marriage marriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 desired desire VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 37 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 before before ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 assembled assemble VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 45 amod _ _ 45 ministers minister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | | | | length a day | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location | | 2 | **summon** | past | the Sultan | | son | | before the council | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 3 | **inform** *speech: other* | past | | | son | there | | | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 4 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | son's own wishes | son's marriage | | | | | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme marriage=Precondition | | 5 | **desire** | past | | son | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | son's answer | | | before the assembled ministers | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | | 7 | **assemble** | participle | | | | | | | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **wish** | | son | | | | | | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | | 9 | **marry** | | son | | | | | | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent | | 10 | **answer** | | son | | | | | | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/23/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/23/5/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/23/)