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title: The vizir was at once attracted by the young man's superior air and… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 84

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The vizir was at once attracted by the young man's superior air and intelligent conversation, and perceiving that he had gained much experience in the course of his travels, he said, "Ah, how I wish you had learnt some secret which might enable you to cure a malady which has plunged this court into affliction for some time past!"

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**Who acts:** superior air, vizir, you, secret · **What happens:** attract, perceive, gain, travel, say, learn · **To what, where:** vizir, gained much experience, course, secret, you, malady · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (superior air, vizir, you, secret), 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:pg128:24:84
# text = The vizir was at once attracted by the young man's superior air and intelligent conversation, and perceiving that he had gained much experience in the course of his travels, he said, "Ah, how I wish you had learnt some secret which might enable you to cure a malady which has plunged this court into affliction for some time past!"
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	obl	_	_
6	attracted	attract	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	superior	superior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	perceiving	perceive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	gained	gain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
24	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
29	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	travels	travel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	41	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	41	advmod	_	_
40	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
42	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
43	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	learnt	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	ccomp	_	_
45	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	46	det	_	_
46	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj	_	_
48	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	enable	enable	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	acl:relcl	_	_
50	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	cure	cure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	xcomp	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	malady	malady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
55	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	57	nsubj:pass	_	_
56	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	plunged	plunge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	54	acl:relcl	_	_
58	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	59	det	_	_
59	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	_
60	into	into	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	affliction	affliction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
62	for	for	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
63	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	65	det	_	_
64	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	compound	_	_
65	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attract** | past · passive | the young man's superior air and intelligent conversation | the vizir |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **perceive** | gerund | the young man's superior air and intelligent conversation *not said here* | gained much experience |  | the course |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer experience=Stimulus |
| 3 | **gain** | past · perfect | vizir |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **travel** | present | the young man's superior air and intelligent conversation *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: express* | past | vizir |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **learn** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | some secret |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic |
| 7 | **enable** *in a quote* | might | some secret | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **cure** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a malady |  | affliction |  | for some time past | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer malady=Source |
| 9 | **plunge** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | a malady |  |  |  |  | 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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