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title: As soon, then, as Khacan returned home he sent for the dealers in fe… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon, then, as Khacan returned home he sent for the dealers in female slaves, and charged them directly they had found such a one as he described to inform him. Who acts: Khacan, Saouy. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree an
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 101

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As soon, then, as Khacan returned home he sent for the dealers in female slaves, and charged them directly they had found such a one as he described to inform him.

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**Who acts:** Khacan, Saouy · **What happens:** return, send, charge, find, describe, inform · **To what, where:** female slaves, Khacan, one, Saouy

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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 (Khacan, Saouy), 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:pg128:27:101
# text = As soon, then, as Khacan returned home he sent for the dealers in female slaves, and charged them directly they had found such a one as he described to inform him.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	Khacan	Khacan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
9	home	home	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dealers	dealer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	charged	charge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	parataxis	_	_
26	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	28	det:predet	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	obj	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	described	describe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	inform	inform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | Khacan |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | past | Saouy |  |  | female slaves | then | for the dealers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in slave=Destination |
| 3 | **charge** | past | Saouy *not said here* | Khacan |  |  |  | directly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location they=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | past · perfect | Khacan | such one |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
| 5 | **describe** | past | Saouy |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **inform** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Saouy *not said here* |  | Saouy |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

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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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