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title: Presently Scheih Ibrahim asked the beautiful Persian if anything wer… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Presently Scheih Ibrahim asked the beautiful Persian if anything were wanting to complete her enjoyment of the evening. Who acts: Scheih, anything, saloon. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 106

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Presently Scheih Ibrahim asked the beautiful Persian if anything were wanting to complete her enjoyment of the evening.

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**Who acts:** Scheih, anything, saloon · **What happens:** ask, want, complete, enjoy · **To what, where:** enjoyment, evening

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scheih, anything, saloon), 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:pg128:29:106
# text = Presently Scheih Ibrahim asked the beautiful Persian if anything were wanting to complete her enjoyment of the evening.
1	Presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	Scheih	Scheih	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Ibrahim	Ibrahim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Persian	persian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	wanting	want	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	complete	complete	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Scheih |  |  |  |  | presently *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **want** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · progressive | anything |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **complete** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | anything *not said here* | saloon's enjoyment of the evening |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enjoyment=Eventuality |
| 4 | **enjoy** |  | saloon | the evening |  |  |  |  | nom enjoyment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=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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