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title: What made him particularly detested was the great aversion he had to… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: What made him particularly detested was the great aversion he had to Khacan, of whom he never ceased to speak evil to the king. Who acts: detested great aversion, Saouy. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 93

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What made him particularly detested was the great aversion he had to Khacan, of whom he never ceased to speak evil to the king.

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**Who acts:** detested great aversion, Saouy · **What happens:** make, detest, be, have, not cease, speak · **To what, where:** Saouy, detested great aversion, Khacan, evil · **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 (detested great aversion, Saouy), 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:pg128:27:93
# text = What made him particularly detested was the great aversion he had to Khacan, of whom he never ceased to speak evil to the king.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	detested	detest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	aversion	aversion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Khacan	Khacan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	conj	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	ceased	cease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past |  | Saouy |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product |
| 2 | **detest** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | particularly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | the detested great aversion |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | the detested great aversion |  | Khacan |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **cease** | past | Saouy |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Saouy *not said here* | evil |  |  |  | to the king | tree rules |

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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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