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title: Saouy, who witnessed the agitation of the people from the windows of… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Saouy, who witnessed the agitation of the people from the windows of the king's privy chambers, called to the executioner to strike at once. Who acts: Saouy. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 76

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Saouy, who witnessed the agitation of the people from the windows of the king's privy chambers, called to the executioner to strike at once.

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**Who acts:** Saouy · **What happens:** witness, call, strike · **To what, where:** agitation, privy chambers, executioner · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Saouy), 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:pg128:30:76
# text = Saouy, who witnessed the agitation of the people from the windows of the king's privy chambers, called to the executioner to strike at once.
1	Saouy	Saouy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	witnessed	witness	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	agitation	agitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	privy	privy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	chambers	chamber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	executioner	executioner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **witness** | past | Saouy | the agitation of the people from the windows of the king's privy chambers |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent agitation=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | the king's privy chambers *not said here* | the executioner |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to executioner=Recipient |
| 3 | **strike** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at once=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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