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title: At length, early one morning, while Khacan was on his way to the kin… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: At length, early one morning, while Khacan was on his way to the king's palace, a dealer, throwing himself in his way, announced eagerly that a Persian merchant, arrived late the previous evening, had a slave to sell whose wit and wisdom were equal to her incomparable beauty. Who acts: Khacan, lengt
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 103

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At length, early one morning, while Khacan was on his way to the king's palace, a dealer, throwing himself in his way, announced eagerly that a Persian merchant, arrived late the previous evening, had a slave to sell whose wit and wisdom were equal to her incomparable beauty.

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**Who acts:** Khacan, length, Persian merchant, wit · **What happens:** be, throw, announce, arrive, have, sell · **To what, where:** way, Saouy, length, 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 (Khacan, length, Persian merchant, wit), 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:pg128:27:103
# text = At length, early one morning, while Khacan was on his way to the king's palace, a dealer, throwing himself in his way, announced eagerly that a Persian merchant, arrived late the previous evening, had a slave to sell whose wit and wisdom were equal to her incomparable beauty.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	Khacan	Khacan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	dealer	dealer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
24	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
29	announced	announce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
30	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Persian	persian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
36	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
37	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	36	advmod	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	previous	previous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	advcl	_	_
47	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	wit	wit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	_
51	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
52	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	ccomp	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
55	incomparable	incomparable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Khacan |  |  | Saouy's way |  | to the king's palace | tree rules |
| 2 | **throw** | gerund | length and a dealer *not said here* | Saouy |  | Saouy's way |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in way=Destination |
| 3 | **announce** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  | length and a dealer |  | eagerly *property* | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **arrive** | past | a Persian merchant |  |  |  | evening | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | past |  | a slave |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Patient |
| 6 | **sell** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | past | wit and wisdom |  |  |  |  | to Majesty's incomparable beauty; equal *property* | tree rules |

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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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