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title: The king not only declared himself to be of this opinion, but charge… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The king not only declared himself to be of this opinion, but charged Khacan to procure him a slave who should fulfil all these conditions. Who acts: king, slave. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 96

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The king not only declared himself to be of this opinion, but charged Khacan to procure him a slave who should fulfil all these conditions.

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**Who acts:** king, slave · **What happens:** not declare, be, charge, procure, fulfil · **To what, where:** King, Khacan, slave, conditions

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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 (king, slave), 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:pg128:27:96
# text = The king not only declared himself to be of this opinion, but charged Khacan to procure him a slave who should fulfil all these conditions.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	charged	charge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	Khacan	Khacan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	procure	procure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
25	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **declare** *speech: other* | past | the king | King |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of this opinion | tree rules |
| 3 | **charge** | past | the king *not said here* | Khacan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **procure** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | a slave | King |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary slave=Theme |
| 5 | **fulfil** | should | a slave | all conditions |  |  |  |  | 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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