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title: The king was overjoyed at the result of Marzavan's interview, and or… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The king was overjoyed at the result of Marzavan's interview, and ordered public rejoicings in honour of the prince's recovery. Who acts: Marzavan, prince. 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 95

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The king was overjoyed at the result of Marzavan's interview, and ordered public rejoicings in honour of the prince's recovery.

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**Who acts:** Marzavan, prince · **What happens:** overjoy, order, result, interview, honour, recover · **To what, where:** king, result, public rejoicings, honour, interview, recovery

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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 (Marzavan, prince), 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:pg128:24:95
# text = The king was overjoyed at the result of Marzavan's interview, and ordered public rejoicings in honour of the prince's recovery.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	overjoyed	overjoy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	Marzavan	Marzavan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	interview	interview	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	rejoicings	rejoicing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	recovery	recovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overjoy** | past · passive |  | the king |  | the result of Marzavan's interview |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **order** | past |  | public rejoicings |  | honour of the prince's recovery |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rejoicing=Theme |
| 3 | **result** |  |  | Marzavan's interview |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **interview** |  | Marzavan |  |  |  |  |  | nom interview «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **honour** |  |  | the prince's recovery |  |  |  |  | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **recover** |  | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom recovery «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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