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title: The dealer appearing at the appointed hour, Khacan found the slave b… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The dealer appearing at the appointed hour, Khacan found the slave beautiful beyond his expectations, and immediately gave her the name of "The Fair Persian." Who acts: dealer, Saouy. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 105

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The dealer appearing at the appointed hour, Khacan found the slave beautiful beyond his expectations, and immediately gave her the name of "The Fair Persian."

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**Who acts:** dealer, Saouy · **What happens:** appear, appoint, find, give, expect, name · **To what, where:** slave, name, treasurer, Fair Persian

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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 (dealer, 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:pg128:27:105
# text = The dealer appearing at the appointed hour, Khacan found the slave beautiful beyond his expectations, and immediately gave her the name of "The Fair Persian."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dealer	dealer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	appearing	appear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	Khacan	Khacan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
14	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	expectations	expectation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | gerund | the dealer *not said here* |  |  |  | hour |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **appoint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **find** | past | the dealer | the slave |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Topic |
| 4 | **give** | past | the dealer *not said here* | the name of the Fair Persian | treasurer |  |  | immediately *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient name=Theme |
| 5 | **expect** |  | Saouy |  |  |  |  |  | nom expectation «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **name** |  |  | the Fair Persian |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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