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title: Whilst all this was happening in the capital of Schahzaman the two g… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Whilst all this was happening in the capital of Schahzaman the two genii had carefully borne the Princess of China back to her own palace and replaced her in bed. Who acts: this. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 38

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Whilst all this was happening in the capital of Schahzaman the two genii had carefully borne the Princess of China back to her own palace and replaced her in bed.

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**Who acts:** this · **What happens:** happen, bear, replace · **To what, where:** capital, two genii, Schahzaman, bed

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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 (this), 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:pg128:24:38
# text = Whilst all this was happening in the capital of Schahzaman the two genii had carefully borne the Princess of China back to her own palace and replaced her in bed.
1	Whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	happening	happen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Schahzaman	Schahzaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	genii	genii	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	borne	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	replaced	replace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past · progressive | this |  |  | the capital of Schahzaman |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in capital=Location |
| 2 | **bear** | past · perfect · passive |  | the two genii |  |  |  | to Schahzaman's own palace; carefully *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary princess=Patient |
| 3 | **replace** | past |  | Schahzaman |  | bed |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-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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