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title: After three days, finding that his guest, to whom he had taken a gre… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: After three days, finding that his guest, to whom he had taken a great fancy, talked of continuing his journey, King Armanos said to him: Who acts: three days, king. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 18

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After three days, finding that his guest, to whom he had taken a great fancy, talked of continuing his journey, King Armanos said to him:

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**Who acts:** three days, king · **What happens:** find, take, talk, continue, say, journey · **To what, where:** guest, great fancy, journey · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three days, king), 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:pg128:26:18
# text = After three days, finding that his guest, to whom he had taken a great fancy, talked of continuing his journey, King Armanos said to him:
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	finding	find	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	appos	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
19	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	continuing	continue	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
25	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	Armanos	Armanos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | gerund | three days *not said here* | king's guest |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Topic |
| 2 | **take** | past · perfect | king | a great fancy |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme |
| 3 | **talk** | past |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **continue** | gerund | King *not said here* | king's journey |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | King |  | guest |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 6 | **journey** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act 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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