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title: After four months he reached a large populous seaport town named Tor… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: After four months he reached a large populous seaport town named Torf, and here he heard no more of the Princess Badoura but a great deal of Prince Camaralzaman, who was reported ill, and whose story sounded very similar to that of the Princess Badoura. Who acts: patience, story. A sentence of «The 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 80

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After four months he reached a large populous seaport town named Torf, and here he heard no more of the Princess Badoura but a great deal of Prince Camaralzaman, who was reported ill, and whose story sounded very similar to that of the Princess Badoura.

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**Who acts:** patience, story · **What happens:** reach, name, hear, report, sound, deal · **To what, where:** large populous seaport town, more, great deal, Prince

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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 (patience, story), 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:pg128:24:80
# text = After four months he reached a large populous seaport town named Torf, and here he heard no more of the Princess Badoura but a great deal of Prince Camaralzaman, who was reported ill, and whose story sounded very similar to that of the Princess Badoura.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	populous	populous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	seaport	seaport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
11	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	Torf	Torf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Badoura	Badoura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	parataxis	_	_
35	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
41	very	very	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	xcomp	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	42	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	Badoura	Badoura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | patience | a large populous seaport town |  |  | month |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent town=Theme |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | a large populous seaport town *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hear** | past | patience | no more |  | here |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |
| 4 | **report** | past · passive |  | a great deal of Prince |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **sound** | past | story |  |  |  |  | similar *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **deal** |  |  | Prince |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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