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title: Moved by these words, and perhaps still more by the fact that he had… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Moved by these words, and perhaps still more by the fact that he had other business to attend to, the Caliph yielded, and struck him lightly on the shoulder. Who acts: oath, other business, Caliph. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33, with its dependenc
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 11

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Moved by these words, and perhaps still more by the fact that he had other business to attend to, the Caliph yielded, and struck him lightly on the shoulder.

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**Who acts:** oath, other business, Caliph · **What happens:** move, have, attend, yield, strike · **To what, where:** other business, oath

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oath, other business, Caliph), 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:pg128:33:11
# text = Moved by these words, and perhaps still more by the fact that he had other business to attend to, the Caliph yielded, and struck him lightly on the shoulder.
1	Moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	appos	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	attend	attend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	yielded	yield	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by this words | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by word=Trajectory |
| 2 | **have** | past | oath | other business |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **attend** | to-infinitive | other business *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **yield** | past | the Caliph |  |  |  |  | by the fact | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **strike** | past | the Caliph *not said here* | oath |  |  |  | on the shoulder; lightly *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument on shoulder=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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