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title: Not thinking one vizir enough for the administration of his estates… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Not thinking one vizir enough for the administration of his estates he had two, named Khacan and Saouy. Who acts: Balsora, two. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 89

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Not thinking one vizir enough for the administration of his estates he had two, named Khacan and Saouy.

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**Who acts:** Balsora, two · **What happens:** not think, have, name, administer · **To what, where:** one vizir, two, estates · **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 (Balsora, two), 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:pg128:27:89
# text = Not thinking one vizir enough for the administration of his estates he had two, named Khacan and Saouy.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	administration	administration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	estates	estate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
17	Khacan	Khacan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Saouy	Saouy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | gerund |  | one vizir |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent vizir=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | Balsora | two |  |  |  | for the administration of Balsora's estates | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** | participle | two *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **administer** |  |  | Balsora's estates |  |  |  |  | nom administration «act 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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