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title: But Camaralzaman politely yet firmly persisted in his intentions, an… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: But Camaralzaman politely yet firmly persisted in his intentions, and at length the king desired the eunuch who had the guard of the princess's apartments to conduct the astrologer to her presence. Who acts: king, eunuch, Prince. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Open
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 26

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But Camaralzaman politely yet firmly persisted in his intentions, and at length the king desired the eunuch who had the guard of the princess's apartments to conduct the astrologer to her presence.

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**Who acts:** king, eunuch, Prince · **What happens:** persist, desire, have, conduct, intend · **To what, where:** Camaralzaman, intentions, eunuch, length, guard, astrologer

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, eunuch, 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:pg128:25:26
# text = But Camaralzaman politely yet firmly persisted in his intentions, and at length the king desired the eunuch who had the guard of the princess's apartments to conduct the astrologer to her presence.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	politely	politely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	persisted	persist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	intentions	intention	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	eunuch	eunuch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	apartments	apartment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	conduct	conduct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	astrologer	astrologer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **persist** | participle · passive |  | Camaralzaman |  | Prince's intentions | yet | firmly, politely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **desire** | past | the king | the eunuch |  | length |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot eunuch=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | the eunuch | the guard of the princess's apartments |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Patient |
| 4 | **conduct** | to-infinitive | the eunuch *not said here* | the astrologer |  | princess's presence |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent astrologer=Theme to presence=Destination |
| 5 | **intend** |  | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom intention «cognition transitive»: 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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