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title: He had no clue to the mystery of his present position, for the princ… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: He had no clue to the mystery of his present position, for the princess, out of compliment to the old king, had taken his name, and was generally known as King Armanos the younger, few people remembering that on her first arrival she went by another name. Who acts: Camaralzaman, few people, princess
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 58

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He had no clue to the mystery of his present position, for the princess, out of compliment to the old king, had taken his name, and was generally known as King Armanos the younger, few people remembering that on her first arrival she went by another name.

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**Who acts:** Camaralzaman, few people, princess · **What happens:** have, take, know, remember, go, name · **To what, where:** clue, name, first arrival · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Camaralzaman, few people, princess), 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:pg128:27:58
# text = He had no clue to the mystery of his present position, for the princess, out of compliment to the old king, had taken his name, and was generally known as King Armanos the younger, few people remembering that on her first arrival she went by another name.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	clue	clue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mystery	mystery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	compliment	compliment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
32	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Armanos	Armanos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	36	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	appos	_	_
42	remembering	remember	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	acl	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
44	on	on	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
46	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	47	amod	_	_
47	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
48	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	ccomp	_	_
50	by	by	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	52	det	_	_
52	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Camaralzaman | no clue |  |  |  | to the mystery of Camaralzaman's present position | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | past · perfect | Camaralzaman *not said here* | Camaralzaman's name |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 3 | **know** | past · passive | Camaralzaman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as King Armanos; generally *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as armanos=Attribute |
| 4 | **remember** | gerund | few people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | past | princess |  |  | princess's first arrival |  | by another name | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on arrival=Location |
| 6 | **name** |  | Camaralzaman |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **arrive** |  | princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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