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title: At sight of the gold, Scheih Ibrahim set off at once to execute the… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: At sight of the gold, Scheih Ibrahim set off at once to execute the commission. Who acts: Scheih. 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 77

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At sight of the gold, Scheih Ibrahim set off at once to execute the commission.

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**Who acts:** Scheih · **What happens:** set off, execute, sight · **To what, where:** sight, commission, gold

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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), 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:pg128:29:77
# text = At sight of the gold, Scheih Ibrahim set off at once to execute the commission.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	Scheih	Scheih	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Ibrahim	Ibrahim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	execute	execute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	commission	commission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set off** | past | Scheih |  |  | sight of the gold |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **execute** | to-infinitive | Scheih *not said here* | the commission |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent commission=Patient |
| 3 | **sight** |  |  | the gold |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: 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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