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title: After a few days the Princess Badoura promoted Camaralzaman to the p… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: After a few days the Princess Badoura promoted Camaralzaman to the post of grand treasurer, an office which he filled with so much integrity and benevolence as to win universal esteem. Who acts: Princess Badoura, office. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 56

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After a few days the Princess Badoura promoted Camaralzaman to the post of grand treasurer, an office which he filled with so much integrity and benevolence as to win universal esteem.

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**Who acts:** Princess Badoura, office · **What happens:** promote, fill, win · **To what, where:** Camaralzaman, universal esteem

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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 (Princess Badoura, office), 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:pg128:27:56
# text = After a few days the Princess Badoura promoted Camaralzaman to the post of grand treasurer, an office which he filled with so much integrity and benevolence as to win universal esteem.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Badoura	Badoura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	promoted	promote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	treasurer	treasurer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	integrity	integrity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	benevolence	benevolence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
31	universal	universal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	esteem	esteem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promote** | past | the Princess Badoura | Camaralzaman |  |  | day | to the post of grand treasurer and a office | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camaralzaman=Theme |
| 2 | **fill** | past | a office |  |  |  |  | with much integrity and benevolence | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with integrity=Instrument |
| 3 | **win** | to-infinitive | a office *not said here* | universal esteem |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent esteem=Eventuality |

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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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