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title: "Letter of the Caliph Haroun-al-Raschid to the King of Balsora. — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Letter of the Caliph Haroun-al-Raschid to the King of Balsora. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 32

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"Letter of the Caliph Haroun-al-Raschid to the King of Balsora.

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg128:30:32
# text = "Letter of the Caliph Haroun-al-Raschid to the King of Balsora.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Letter	Letter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
5	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
6	Haroun	Haroun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Raschid	Raschid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Balsora	Balsora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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