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title: "Haroun-al-Raschid, son of Mahdi, sends this letter to Mohammed Zine… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Haroun-al-Raschid, son of Mahdi, sends this letter to Mohammed Zinebi, his cousin. Who acts: Haroun. 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 33

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"Haroun-al-Raschid, son of Mahdi, sends this letter to Mohammed Zinebi, his cousin.

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**Who acts:** Haroun · **What happens:** send · **To what, where:** letter, Mohammed

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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: who acts (Haroun), 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:pg128:30:33
# text = "Haroun-al-Raschid, son of Mahdi, sends this letter to Mohammed Zinebi, his cousin.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Haroun	Haroun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Raschid	Raschid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Mahdi	Mahdi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Mohammed	Mohammed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	Zinebi	Zinebi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** *in a quote* | present | Haroun and Raschid | this letter  Raschid's cousin | Mohammed |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Theme to mohammed=Destination |

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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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