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title: The beautiful Persian, inconsolable at his departure, sank on a sofa… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The beautiful Persian, inconsolable at his departure, sank on a sofa bathed in tears. Who acts: departure, Sangiar. 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 37

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The beautiful Persian, inconsolable at his departure, sank on a sofa bathed in tears.

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**Who acts:** departure, Sangiar · **What happens:** sink, bath, depart · **To what, where:** sofa, tears

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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 (departure, Sangiar), 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:pg128:30:37
# text = The beautiful Persian, inconsolable at his departure, sank on a sofa bathed in tears.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Persian	persian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	inconsolable	inconsolable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	bathed	bath	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | past | Sangiar's departure *not said here* |  |  | a sofa |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **bath** | participle |  | a sofa *not said here* |  | tears |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **depart** |  | Sangiar |  |  |  |  |  | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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