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title: He gave the beautiful Persian an apartment near to that of his wife,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: He gave the beautiful Persian an apartment near to that of his wife, whom he charged to treat her as befitting a lady destined for the king, and to order for her the most magnificent garments. Who acts: merchant. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, wit
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 12

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He gave the beautiful Persian an apartment near to that of his wife, whom he charged to treat her as befitting a lady destined for the king, and to order for her the most magnificent garments.

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**Who acts:** merchant · **What happens:** give, charge, treat, befit, destine, order · **To what, where:** beautiful Persian, wife, Khacan, lady, magnificent garments

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant), 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:pg128:28:12
# text = He gave the beautiful Persian an apartment near to that of his wife, whom he charged to treat her as befitting a lady destined for the king, and to order for her the most magnificent garments.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	apartment	apartment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	near	near	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	charged	charge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	treat	treat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	befitting	befit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	destined	destine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	order	order	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	37	advmod	_	_
37	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | merchant | the beautiful Persian |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **charge** | past | merchant | merchant's wife |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **treat** | to-infinitive | merchant *not said here* |  | Khacan |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 4 | **befit** | gerund | merchant *not said here* | a lady |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **destine** | participle |  | a lady *not said here* |  |  |  | for the king | tree rules |
| 6 | **order** | to-infinitive | merchant *not said here* | the magnificent garments |  |  |  | for Khacan | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent garment=Theme for she=Beneficiary |

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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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