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title: He urged the sultan to remove with the prince to a lovely little isl… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: He urged the sultan to remove with the prince to a lovely little island close by, whence he could easily attend public audiences, and where the charming scenery and fine air would do the invalid so much good as to enable him to bear his father's occasional absence. Who acts: minister, charming scene
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 36

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He urged the sultan to remove with the prince to a lovely little island close by, whence he could easily attend public audiences, and where the charming scenery and fine air would do the invalid so much good as to enable him to bear his father's occasional absence.

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**Who acts:** minister, charming scenery, father · **What happens:** urge, remove, attend, charm, do, enable · **To what, where:** sultan, lovely little island, public audiences, invalid, minister, occasional absence

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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 (minister, charming scenery, father), 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:pg128:24:36
# text = He urged the sultan to remove with the prince to a lovely little island close by, whence he could easily attend public audiences, and where the charming scenery and fine air would do the invalid so much good as to enable him to bear his father's occasional absence.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	urged	urge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	remove	remove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
15	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	attend	attend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
23	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	audiences	audience	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
27	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	35	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	charming	charm	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	amod	_	_
30	scenery	scenery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
34	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	invalid	invalid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	much	much	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	_
41	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	enable	enable	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	advcl	_	_
44	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	xcomp	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	's	's	PART	POS	_	48	case	_	_
50	occasional	occasional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **urge** | past | minister | the sultan |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent sultan=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **remove** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | minister *not said here* |  |  | a lovely little island |  | with the prince | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to island=Destination |
| 3 | **attend** | could | minister | public audiences |  |  |  | easily, whence *property* | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme audience=Goal |
| 4 | **charm** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **do** | would | the charming scenery and fine air | the invalid |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invalid=Eventuality |
| 6 | **enable** | to-infinitive | the charming scenery and fine air *not said here* | minister |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **bear** | to-infinitive | minister *not said here* | minister's father's occasional absence |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent absence=Patient |
| 8 | **absent** |  | minister's father |  |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state 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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