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title: After some consideration his mother consented, and even persuaded th… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: After some consideration his mother consented, and even persuaded the eunuch on guard to make no objection to Marzavan's entering the royal apartment. Who acts: mother. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 71

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After some consideration his mother consented, and even persuaded the eunuch on guard to make no objection to Marzavan's entering the royal apartment.

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** consent, persuade, make, enter · **To what, where:** eunuch, guard, objection, royal apartment

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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 (mother), 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:pg128:24:71
# text = After some consideration his mother consented, and even persuaded the eunuch on guard to make no objection to Marzavan's entering the royal apartment.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	consideration	consideration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	consented	consent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	persuaded	persuade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	eunuch	eunuch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	objection	objection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	Marzavan	Marzavan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	apartment	apartment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consent** | past | son's mother |  |  |  | after some consideration |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **persuade** | past | son's mother *not said here* | the eunuch |  | guard |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eunuch=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | son's mother *not said here* | no objection |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset objection=Product |
| 4 | **enter** | gerund | son's mother *not said here* | the royal apartment |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme apartment=Destination |

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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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