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title: Khacan, entering shortly after this, was much astonished to find his… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Khacan, entering shortly after this, was much astonished to find his wife and her slaves in tears, and the beautiful Persian greatly perturbed. Who acts: Khacan. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 46

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Khacan, entering shortly after this, was much astonished to find his wife and her slaves in tears, and the beautiful Persian greatly perturbed.

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**Who acts:** Khacan · **What happens:** enter, be, find · **To what, where:** wife

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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 (Khacan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg128:2317`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:28:46
# text = Khacan, entering shortly after this, was much astonished to find his wife and her slaves in tears, and the beautiful Persian greatly perturbed.
1	Khacan	Khacan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
4	shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	much	much	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	xcomp	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	perturbed	perturbed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | gerund | Khacan *not said here* |  |  |  | after this | shortly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | Khacan |  |  |  |  | astonished *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | Khacan *not said here* | father's wife and wife's slaves |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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