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title: Aladdin begged for forty days in which to find her, promising if he… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Aladdin begged for forty days in which to find her, promising if he failed to return and suffer death at the Sultan's pleasure. Who acts: Aladdin, Sultan. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 35

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Aladdin begged for forty days in which to find her, promising if he failed to return and suffer death at the Sultan's pleasure.

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**Who acts:** Aladdin, Sultan · **What happens:** beg, find, promise, fail, not return, suffer · **To what, where:** daughter, death, pleasure

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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 (Aladdin, Sultan), 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:pg128:32:35
# text = Aladdin begged for forty days in which to find her, promising if he failed to return and suffer death at the Sultan's pleasure.
1	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	promising	promise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
20	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Aladdin |  |  |  | day |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent which=Recipient |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | Aladdin *not said here* | daughter |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | gerund | Aladdin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **fail** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Aladdin |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **not** **return** | to-infinitive | Aladdin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **suffer** | infinitive | Aladdin *not said here* | death |  | the Sultan's pleasure |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer death=Stimulus |
| 7 | **please** |  | the Sultan |  |  |  |  |  | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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