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title: This advice appearing reasonable, Khacan decided to follow it, but h… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: This advice appearing reasonable, Khacan decided to follow it, but his wrath against his son did not abate. Who acts: advice, wrath. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 62

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This advice appearing reasonable, Khacan decided to follow it, but his wrath against his son did not abate.

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**Who acts:** advice, wrath · **What happens:** appear, decide, follow, not abate · **To what, where:** advice

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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 (advice, wrath), 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:pg128:28:62
# text = This advice appearing reasonable, Khacan decided to follow it, but his wrath against his son did not abate.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	appearing	appear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	reasonable	reasonable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	Khacan	Khacan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
15	against	against	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	abate	abate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | gerund | this advice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | reasonable *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **decide** | past | this advice |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **follow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | this advice *not said here* | advice |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **abate** | past · do-support | Saouy's wrath against Saouy's son |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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