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title: He then gave an exact account of his interview with Camaralzaman and… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: He then gave an exact account of his interview with Camaralzaman and of the prince's fury when told that it was not possible for any lady to have entered his room, and of the treatment he himself had received. Who acts: sire, account, prince. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andr
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 22

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He then gave an exact account of his interview with Camaralzaman and of the prince's fury when told that it was not possible for any lady to have entered his room, and of the treatment he himself had received.

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**Who acts:** sire, account, prince · **What happens:** give, tell, not be, enter, receive, account · **To what, where:** exact account, room, sire, interview · **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 (sire, account, prince), 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:pg128:24:22
# text = He then gave an exact account of his interview with Camaralzaman and of the prince's fury when told that it was not possible for any lady to have entered his room, and of the treatment he himself had received.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	interview	interview	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
19	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
29	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux	_	_
30	entered	enter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	ccomp	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	38	nmod:unmarked	_	_
40	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | sire | a exact account of sire's interview with Camaralzaman and the prince's fury |  |  | then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle | sire *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for any lady | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | account |  |  |  |  | possible *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **enter** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · perfect |  | sire's room |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination |
| 5 | **receive** | past · perfect · passive |  | sire |  |  |  | of the treatment | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **account** |  |  | sire's interview with Camaralzaman and the prince's fury |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **interview** |  | sire |  |  |  |  | with Camaralzaman | nom interview «communication intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
| 8 | **infuriate** |  | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom fury «feeling 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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