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title: As to the king, the Caliph contented himself with sending him back t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: As to the king, the Caliph contented himself with sending him back to Balsora, with the recommendation to be more careful in future in the choice of his vizir. Who acts: Caliph. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 91

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As to the king, the Caliph contented himself with sending him back to Balsora, with the recommendation to be more careful in future in the choice of his vizir.

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**Who acts:** Caliph · **What happens:** content, send, be · **To what, where:** Noureddin, future

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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 (Caliph), 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:pg128:30:91
# text = As to the king, the Caliph contented himself with sending him back to Balsora, with the recommendation to be more careful in future in the choice of his vizir.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	contented	content	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Balsora	Balsora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	recommendation	recommendation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	acl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **content** | past | the Caliph | Noureddin |  |  |  | as the king | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer |
| 2 | **send** | gerund | the Caliph *not said here* | Noureddin |  |  |  | with the recommendation | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | the Caliph *not said here* |  |  | future |  | in the choice of Noureddin's vizir; careful *property* | tree rules |

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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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