--- title: The magician left Persia for ever, which plainly showed that he was… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: The magician left Persia for ever, which plainly showed that he was no uncle of Aladdin's, but a cunning magician who had read in his magic books of a wonderful lamp, which would make him the most powerful man in the world. Who acts: magician, cunning magician. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Ente --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/31/14/) [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/) / 14 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 14 The magician left Persia for ever, which plainly showed that he was no uncle of Aladdin's, but a cunning magician who had read in his magic books of a wonderful lamp, which would make him the most powerful man in the world. **Who acts:** magician, cunning magician · **What happens:** leave, show, be, read, make · **To what, where:** Persia, uncle, magic books · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (magician, cunning magician), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:31:14 # text = The magician left Persia for ever, which plainly showed that he was no uncle of Aladdin's, but a cunning magician who had read in his magic books of a wonderful lamp, which would make him the most powerful man in the world. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Persia Persia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 9 plainly plainly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|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 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 15 det _ _ 15 uncle uncle NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 ccomp _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Aladdin Aladdin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 cunning cunning ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 25 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 read read VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 magic magic NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 lamp lamp NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 37 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 41 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 42 advmod _ _ 42 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 xcomp _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | past | the magician | Persia | | | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent persia=Theme for ever=Recipient | | 2 | **show** | past | | | | | | plainly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | past | magician | no uncle | | | | of Aladdin | tree rules | | 4 | **read** | past · perfect | a cunning magician | | | magician's magic books of a wonderful lamp | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **make** | would | a cunning magician | Persia | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/31/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/31/15/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/31/)