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description: He then told his whole history, including the extraordinary manner of his first seeing and loving the Princess Badoura. Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 58

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He then told his whole history, including the extraordinary manner of his first seeing and loving the Princess Badoura.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** tell, see, love · **To what, where:** whole history, extraordinary manner, Princess Badoura · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:pg128:25:58
# text = He then told his whole history, including the extraordinary manner of his first seeing and loving the Princess Badoura.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	including	including	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Masc|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
15	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	loving	love	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Badoura	Badoura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Prince | Prince's whole history |  |  | then | including the extraordinary manner | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent history=Recipient |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | Prince | the extraordinary manner *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer manner=Stimulus |
| 3 | **love** | gerund | Prince *not said here* | the Princess Badoura |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer badoura=Stimulus |

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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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