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title: Camaralzaman, pleased to be free to enjoy his books, showed himself… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Camaralzaman, pleased to be free to enjoy his books, showed himself very indifferent to his sentence. Who acts: 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 6

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Camaralzaman, pleased to be free to enjoy his books, showed himself very indifferent to his sentence.

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**Who acts:** Camaralzaman · **What happens:** be, enjoy, show, sentence · **To what, where:** books, Camaralzaman

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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 (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:pg128:23:6
# text = Camaralzaman, pleased to be free to enjoy his books, showed himself very indifferent to his sentence.
1	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	iobj	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	indifferent	indifferent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | to-infinitive | Camaralzaman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | free *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **enjoy** | to-infinitive | Camaralzaman *not said here* | Camaralzaman's books |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer book=Stimulus |
| 3 | **show** | past | Camaralzaman |  | Camaralzaman |  |  | indifferent *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient |
| 4 | **sentence** |  | Camaralzaman |  |  |  |  |  | nom sentence «communication 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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