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title: Still wondering, he passed on, and for the moment had to content him… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Still wondering, he passed on, and for the moment had to content himself with telling the vizir to command the horseman also to appear before him at the same time as the blind man. Who acts: thing, vizir. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33, with its de
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 18

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Still wondering, he passed on, and for the moment had to content himself with telling the vizir to command the horseman also to appear before him at the same time as the blind man.

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**Who acts:** thing, vizir · **What happens:** wonder, pass on, have, content, tell, command · **To what, where:** thing, vizir, horseman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (thing, vizir), 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:pg128:33:18
# text = Still wondering, he passed on, and for the moment had to content himself with telling the vizir to command the horseman also to appear before him at the same time as the blind man.
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	content	content	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	command	command	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	horseman	horseman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	also	also	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
27	before	before	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | thing *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **pass on** | past | thing |  |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | thing *not said here* |  |  |  | moment |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **content** | to-infinitive | thing *not said here* | thing |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | thing *not said here* | the vizir |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent vizir=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **command** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the vizir *not said here* | the horseman |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent horseman=Eventuality |
| 7 | **appear** | to-infinitive | the vizir *not said here* |  |  |  | before thing; time |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location |

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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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