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title: About that time the Persian, perceiving that the room was lit by onl… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: About that time the Persian, perceiving that the room was lit by only one miserable tallow candle, asked Scheih Ibrahim to light some of the beautiful candles in the silver arms. Who acts: Persian, one miserable tallow candle. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 88

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About that time the Persian, perceiving that the room was lit by only one miserable tallow candle, asked Scheih Ibrahim to light some of the beautiful candles in the silver arms.

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**Who acts:** Persian, one miserable tallow candle · **What happens:** perceive, lit, ask, light · **To what, where:** room, Scheih, some

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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 (Persian, one miserable tallow candle), 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:pg128:29:88
# text = About that time the Persian, perceiving that the room was lit by only one miserable tallow candle, asked Scheih Ibrahim to light some of the beautiful candles in the silver arms.
1	About	about	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	perceiving	perceive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
16	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	tallow	tallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
20	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	Scheih	Scheih	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	iobj	_	_
22	Ibrahim	Ibrahim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	light	light	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perceive** | gerund | the Persian *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **lit** | past · passive | one miserable tallow candle | the room |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | Scheih |  | time |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent scheih=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **light** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | some |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Product |

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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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