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title: The king replied that he was, and he was immediately led forth, thou… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The king replied that he was, and he was immediately led forth, though bound hand and foot. Who acts: king. 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 85

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The king replied that he was, and he was immediately led forth, though bound hand and foot.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** reply, lead, bind · **To what, where:** king, hand

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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 (king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg128:2517`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:30:85
# text = The king replied that he was, and he was immediately led forth, though bound hand and foot.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
13	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
17	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lead** | past · passive |  | king |  |  |  | forth, immediately *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **bind** | participle |  | hand and foot |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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