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title: The two queens lived in true sisterly harmony together, and after a… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The two queens lived in true sisterly harmony together, and after a time each presented King Camaralzaman with a son, whose births were celebrated throughout the kingdom with the utmost rejoicing. Who acts: two queens, each. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 85

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The two queens lived in true sisterly harmony together, and after a time each presented King Camaralzaman with a son, whose births were celebrated throughout the kingdom with the utmost rejoicing.

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**Who acts:** two queens, each · **What happens:** live, present, celebrate · **To what, where:** true sisterly harmony, King Camaralzaman, births

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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 (two queens, each), 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:pg128:27:85
# text = The two queens lived in true sisterly harmony together, and after a time each presented King Camaralzaman with a son, whose births were celebrated throughout the kingdom with the utmost rejoicing.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	queens	queen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	sisterly	sisterly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	harmony	harmony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nsubj	_	_
16	presented	present	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	births	birth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
27	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	utmost	utmost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	rejoicing	rejoicing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the two queens |  |  | true sisterly harmony |  | together *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in harmony=Location |
| 2 | **present** | past | each |  | King Camaralzaman |  | time | with a son | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent camaralzaman=Recipient with son=Theme |
| 3 | **celebrate** | past · passive |  | births |  |  | throughout the kingdom with the utmost rejoicing |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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