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title: Only the door-keeper lived there, an old soldier named Scheih Ibrahi… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Only the door-keeper lived there, an old soldier named Scheih Ibrahim, who had strict orders to be very careful whom he admitted, and never to allow any one to sit on the sofas by the door. Who acts: door keeper, Scheih, keeper, one. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 55

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Only the door-keeper lived there, an old soldier named Scheih Ibrahim, who had strict orders to be very careful whom he admitted, and never to allow any one to sit on the sofas by the door.

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**Who acts:** door keeper, Scheih, keeper, one · **What happens:** live, name, have, be, admit, not allow · **To what, where:** old soldier, strict orders, one, sofas

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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 (door keeper, Scheih, keeper, one), 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:pg128:29:55
# text = Only the door-keeper lived there, an old soldier named Scheih Ibrahim, who had strict orders to be very careful whom he admitted, and never to allow any one to sit on the sofas by the door.
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	Scheih	Scheih	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	_
14	Ibrahim	Ibrahim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	strict	strict	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	acl	_	_
24	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	admitted	admit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	allow	allow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
32	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
33	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	sofas	sofa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the door keeper | a old soldier |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | a old soldier *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | Scheih | strict orders |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | Scheih *not said here* | strict orders *not said here* |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **admit** *speech: other* | past | keeper |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **allow** | to-infinitive |  | any one |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer one=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **sit** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | any one *not said here* |  |  | the sofas |  | by the door | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sofa=Location |

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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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