--- title: The Sultan, who was sitting in his closet, mourning for his lost dau… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: The Sultan, who was sitting in his closet, mourning for his lost daughter, happened to look up, and rubbed his eyes, for there stood the palace as before! Who acts: Sultan. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/32/75/) [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 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/32/) / 75 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 75 The Sultan, who was sitting in his closet, mourning for his lost daughter, happened to look up, and rubbed his eyes, for there stood the palace as before! **Who acts:** Sultan · **What happens:** sit, mourn, lose, happen, look up, rub · **To what, where:** closet, eyes, palace 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 (Sultan), 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:pg128:32:75 # text = The Sultan, who was sitting in his closet, mourning for his lost daughter, happened to look up, and rubbed his eyes, for there stood the palace as before! 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 closet closet NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 mourning mourn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ _ 15 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 rubbed rub VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 for for SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 29 advmod _ _ 29 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 as as ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 before before ADV RB _ 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ! ! PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | past · progressive | the Sultan | | | Sultan's closet | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in closet=Location | | 2 | **mourn** | gerund | the Sultan *not said here* | | | | | for Sultan's lost daughter | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for daughter=Attribute | | 3 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **happen** | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **look up** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **rub** | past | | Sultan's eyes | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | | 7 | **stand** | past | | the palace | | there | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus | 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 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/32/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/32/76/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/32/)