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title: Ask the king's permission to go with me for two or three days' hunti… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Ask the king's permission to go with me for two or three days' hunting, and when he has given leave order two good horses to be held ready for each of us. Who acts: you, king, two days. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 102

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Ask the king's permission to go with me for two or three days' hunting, and when he has given leave order two good horses to be held ready for each of us.

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**Who acts:** you, king, two days · **What happens:** ask, go, give, leave, hold, permit · **To what, where:** permission, king, order · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, king, two days), 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:pg128:24:102
# text = Ask the king's permission to go with me for two or three days' hunting, and when he has given leave order two good horses to be held ready for each of us.
1	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	_
14	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	22	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
23	leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
24	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
26	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
31	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | the king's permission |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent permission=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with me; for two days's hunting | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with i=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **give** | present · perfect · passive |  | king |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | infinitive | you *not said here* | order |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent order=Theme horse=Attribute |
| 5 | **hold** | to-infinitive · passive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V» |
| 6 | **permit** |  | the king |  |  |  |  |  | nom permission «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **hunt** |  | two days |  |  |  |  |  | nom hunting «act 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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