---
title: The Sultan embraced him, the envious vizir meanwhile hinting that it… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sultan embraced him, the envious vizir meanwhile hinting that it was the work of enchantment. Who acts: Sultan, envious vizir, task. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/31/135/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/31/) / 135

# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 135

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Sultan embraced him, the envious vizir meanwhile hinting that it was the work of enchantment.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Sultan, envious vizir, task · **What happens:** embrace, hint, be · **To what, where:** Aladdin, work · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, envious vizir, task), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg128:31:135
# text = The Sultan embraced him, the envious vizir meanwhile hinting that it was the work of enchantment.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	embraced	embrace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	envious	envious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
9	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	hinting	hint	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **embrace** | past | the Sultan | Aladdin |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **hint** *speech: other* | gerund | the envious vizir *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | task | the work |  |  |  | of enchantment | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/31/134/)
- next →: [sentence 136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/31/136/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/31/)