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title: The king sat near him, but, without paying any regard to his presenc… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The king sat near him, but, without paying any regard to his presence, Marzavan exclaimed, "Heavens! what a striking likeness!" Who acts: king, Marzavan. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 89

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The king sat near him, but, without paying any regard to his presence, Marzavan exclaimed, "Heavens! what a striking likeness!"

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**Who acts:** king, Marzavan · **What happens:** sit, pay, exclaim, strike · **To what, where:** regard, Heavens · **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 (king, Marzavan), 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:pg128:24:89
# text = The king sat near him, but, without paying any regard to his presence, Marzavan exclaimed, "Heavens! what a striking likeness!"
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	regard	regard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	Marzavan	Marzavan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	parataxis	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	amod	_	_
26	likeness	likeness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | the king |  |  |  |  | near vizir | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near he=Location |
| 2 | **pay** | gerund | the king *not said here* | any regard |  |  |  | to vizir's presence | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent regard=Asset |
| 3 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | Marzavan | Heavens |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **strike** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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