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title: Camaralzaman did so at great length, showed the ring, and implored h… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Camaralzaman did so at great length, showed the ring, and implored his father to help to find the bride he so ardently desired. Who acts: Camaralzaman. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 30

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Camaralzaman did so at great length, showed the ring, and implored his father to help to find the bride he so ardently desired.

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**Who acts:** Camaralzaman · **What happens:** do, show, implore, help, find, desire · **To what, where:** great length, ring, father, bride

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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 (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:pg128:24:30
# text = Camaralzaman did so at great length, showed the ring, and implored his father to help to find the bride he so ardently desired.
1	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	implored	implore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	ardently	ardently	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	desired	desire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Camaralzaman |  |  | great length |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **show** | past | Camaralzaman *not said here* | the ring |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ring=Recipient |
| 3 | **implore** | past |  |  | Camaralzaman's father |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Recipient |
| 4 | **help** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | the bride |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Topic |
| 6 | **desire** | participle | Camaralzaman | the bride *not said here* |  |  |  | ardently *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bride=Theme |

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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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