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title: Khacan was kind, generous, and liberal, and took pleasure in obligin… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Khacan was kind, generous, and liberal, and took pleasure in obliging, as far as in him lay, those who had business with him. Who acts: Khacan. 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 90

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Khacan was kind, generous, and liberal, and took pleasure in obliging, as far as in him lay, those who had business with him.

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**Who acts:** Khacan · **What happens:** be, take, oblige, lay, have · **To what, where:** pleasure, those, business

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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 (Khacan), 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:pg128:27:90
# text = Khacan was kind, generous, and liberal, and took pleasure in obliging, as far as in him lay, those who had business with him.
1	Khacan	Khacan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	generous	generous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	liberal	liberal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	obliging	oblige	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
21	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	obl	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Khacan |  |  |  |  | kind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Khacan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Khacan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | past |  | pleasure |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme |
| 5 | **oblige** | gerund |  | those |  |  |  | far *property* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **lay** | present |  |  |  |  |  | in Balsora | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in he=Destination |
| 7 | **have** | past |  | business |  |  |  | with Balsora | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=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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