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title: Scheih Ibrahim immediately took a lute from a cup-board and gave it… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Scheih Ibrahim immediately took a lute from a cup-board and gave it to the Persian, who began to play on it, singing the while with such skill and taste that the Caliph was enchanted. Who acts: Scheih, Persian. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29, with 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 108

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Scheih Ibrahim immediately took a lute from a cup-board and gave it to the Persian, who began to play on it, singing the while with such skill and taste that the Caliph was enchanted.

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**Who acts:** Scheih, Persian · **What happens:** take, give, begin, play, sing, enchant · **To what, where:** lute, cup board, Persian, Caliph

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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, Persian), 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:pg128:29:108
# text = Scheih Ibrahim immediately took a lute from a cup-board and gave it to the Persian, who began to play on it, singing the while with such skill and taste that the Caliph was enchanted.
1	Scheih	Scheih	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Ibrahim	Ibrahim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lute	lute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Scheih | a lute |  | a cup board |  | immediately *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent lute=Theme from board=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **give** | past | Scheih *not said here* | lute | the Persian |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to persian=Recipient |
| 3 | **begin** | past | the Persian |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **play** | to-infinitive | the Persian *not said here* |  |  | lute |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | the Persian *not said here* |  |  |  | while | with such skill and taste | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with skill=Theme |
| 6 | **enchant** | past · passive |  | the Caliph |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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