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title: Much pleased with the peace and good order of the city, the Caliph a… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Much pleased with the peace and good order of the city, the Caliph and his vizir made their way to a bridge, which led straight back to the palace, and had already crossed it, when they were stopped by an old and blind man, who begged for alms. Who acts: Caliph, bridge, old man. A sentence of «The A
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 122

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Much pleased with the peace and good order of the city, the Caliph and his vizir made their way to a bridge, which led straight back to the palace, and had already crossed it, when they were stopped by an old and blind man, who begged for alms.

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**Who acts:** Caliph, bridge, old man · **What happens:** make, lead, cross, stop, beg, order · **To what, where:** way, Caliph, city

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Caliph, bridge, old man), 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:pg128:32:122
# text = Much pleased with the peace and good order of the city, the Caliph and his vizir made their way to a bridge, which led straight back to the palace, and had already crossed it, when they were stopped by an old and blind man, who begged for alms.
1	Much	much	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	back	back	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	already	already	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	crossed	cross	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	42	advmod	_	_
40	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
43	by	by	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
44	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
45	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	conj	_	_
48	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	51	nsubj	_	_
51	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	acl:relcl	_	_
52	for	for	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	alms	alm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the Caliph and order's vizir | Caliph's way |  |  |  | to a bridge | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Product |
| 2 | **lead** | past | a bridge |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 3 | **cross** | past · perfect |  | way |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **stop** | past · passive | a old man | Caliph |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector subject=Eventuality |
| 5 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | a old man |  |  |  |  | for alms | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for alm=Topic |
| 6 | **order** |  |  | the city |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: of=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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