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title: The eunuch led the way through long passages, and Camaralzaman follo… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The eunuch led the way through long passages, and Camaralzaman followed rapidly, in haste to reach the object of his desires. Who acts: eunuch, Camaralzaman. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 27

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The eunuch led the way through long passages, and Camaralzaman followed rapidly, in haste to reach the object of his desires.

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**Who acts:** eunuch, Camaralzaman · **What happens:** lead, follow, reach, desire · **To what, where:** way, long passages, haste, object

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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 (eunuch, Camaralzaman), 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:pg128:25:27
# text = The eunuch led the way through long passages, and Camaralzaman followed rapidly, in haste to reach the object of his desires.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	eunuch	eunuch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	passages	passage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	desires	desire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | the eunuch | the way |  | long passages |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme through passage=Destination |
| 2 | **follow** | past | Camaralzaman |  |  | haste |  | rapidly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in haste=Location |
| 3 | **reach** | to-infinitive | Camaralzaman *not said here* | the object of eunuch's desires |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent object=Theme |
| 4 | **desire** |  | eunuch |  |  |  |  |  | nom desire «feeling 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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