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description: The two princesses now planned out their future action, and agreed to combine to keep up the deception and to let Badoura continue to play a man's part until such time as there might be news of the real Camaralzaman. Who acts: Badoura, princess. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by A
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 37

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The two princesses now planned out their future action, and agreed to combine to keep up the deception and to let Badoura continue to play a man's part until such time as there might be news of the real Camaralzaman.

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**Who acts:** Badoura, princess · **What happens:** plan out, agree, combine, keep up, let, continue · **To what, where:** two princesses, deception, Badoura, part

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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 (Badoura, princess), 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:pg128:26:37
# text = The two princesses now planned out their future action, and agreed to combine to keep up the deception and to let Badoura continue to play a man's part until such time as there might be news of the real Camaralzaman.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	combine	combine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	deception	deception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
23	Badoura	Badoura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	continue	continue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
31	until	until	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	37	expl	_	_
36	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	cop	_	_
38	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plan out** | participle · passive |  | the two princesses |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **combine** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **keep up** | to-infinitive |  | the deception |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent deception=Theme |
| 5 | **let** | to-infinitive |  | Badoura |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **continue** | infinitive | Badoura *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **play** | to-infinitive | Badoura *not said here* | a man's part |  |  | time |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 8 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | as news; of the real Camaralzaman | tree rules |
| 9 | **act** |  | princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom action «act 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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