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title: And forthwith he ordered his grand treasurer, who was present, to se… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: And forthwith he ordered his grand treasurer, who was present, to send 10,000 gold pieces to Khacan for the purchase of the slave. Who acts: Saouy, grand treasurer. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 100

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And forthwith he ordered his grand treasurer, who was present, to send 10,000 gold pieces to Khacan for the purchase of the slave.

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**Who acts:** Saouy, grand treasurer · **What happens:** order, be, send, purchase · **To what, where:** grand treasurer, 10,000 gold pieces, Khacan, slave

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saouy, grand treasurer), 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:pg128:27:100
# text = And forthwith he ordered his grand treasurer, who was present, to send 10,000 gold pieces to Khacan for the purchase of the slave.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	forthwith	forthwith	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	treasurer	treasurer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
15	10,000	10000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Khacan	Khacan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	purchase	purchase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | Saouy | Saouy's grand treasurer |  |  |  | forthwith *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasurer=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | Saouy's grand treasurer |  |  |  |  | present *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **send** | to-infinitive | Saouy *not said here* | 10,000 gold pieces | Khacan |  |  | for the purchase of the slave | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme to khacan=Destination |
| 4 | **purchase** |  |  | the slave |  |  |  |  | nom purchase «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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