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title: While some declared that it sufficed for a slave to be beautiful, ot… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: While some declared that it sufficed for a slave to be beautiful, others, and Khacan was among the number, maintained that beauty alone was not enough, but that it must be accompanied by wit, wisdom, modesty, and, if possible, knowledge. Who acts: some, conversation, Khacan, beauty. A sentence of «T
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 95

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While some declared that it sufficed for a slave to be beautiful, others, and Khacan was among the number, maintained that beauty alone was not enough, but that it must be accompanied by wit, wisdom, modesty, and, if possible, knowledge.

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**Who acts:** some, conversation, Khacan, beauty, wit · **What happens:** declare, suffice, be, maintain, not be, accompany · **To what, where:** conversation · **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 (some, conversation, Khacan, beauty), 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:pg128:27:95
# text = While some declared that it sufficed for a slave to be beautiful, others, and Khacan was among the number, maintained that beauty alone was not enough, but that it must be accompanied by wit, wisdom, modesty, and, if possible, knowledge.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
3	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sufficed	suffice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	Khacan	Khacan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	among	among	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	maintained	maintain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	wit	wit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	modesty	modesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
46	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
47	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
49	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | some |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **suffice** | past | conversation |  |  |  |  | for a slave | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | conversation *not said here* |  |  |  |  | others *obl*; beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | Khacan |  |  |  |  | among the number | tree rules |
| 5 | **maintain** | past | some *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **is** | past | beauty |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **accompany** | must · passive | wit and wisdom and modesty | conversation |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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