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title: An elderly emir present, fired with the desire to possess a young an… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: An elderly emir present, fired with the desire to possess a young and lovely wife and to rule over a great kingdom, offered to try the magic arts with which he was acquainted. Who acts: king. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 59

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An elderly emir present, fired with the desire to possess a young and lovely wife and to rule over a great kingdom, offered to try the magic arts with which he was acquainted.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** fire, possess, rule, offer, try, be · **To what, where:** elderly emir present, young wife, great kingdom, magic arts

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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 (king), 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:pg128:24:59
# text = An elderly emir present, fired with the desire to possess a young and lovely wife and to rule over a great kingdom, offered to try the magic arts with which he was acquainted.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	elderly	elderly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	emir	emir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	fired	fire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	rule	rule	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	arts	art	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obl	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	acquainted	acquainted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fire** | participle · passive |  | a elderly emir present |  |  |  | with the desire | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **possess** | to-infinitive |  | a young wife |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wife=Theme |
| 3 | **rule** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | a great kingdom |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **offer** | participle |  | a great kingdom *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **try** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the magic arts |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Eventuality |
| 6 | **is** | past | king |  |  |  |  | with the magic arts; acquainted *property* | tree rules |

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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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