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title: The boy's words recalled to the Caliph the petition he had read that… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The boy's words recalled to the Caliph the petition he had read that morning, and he waited with interest to see what the children would do. Who acts: words, boy, children. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 103

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The boy's words recalled to the Caliph the petition he had read that morning, and he waited with interest to see what the children would do.

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**Who acts:** words, boy, children · **What happens:** recall, read, wait, see, do, word · **To what, where:** petition, Caliph, morning · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, boy, children), 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:pg128:36:103
# text = The boy's words recalled to the Caliph the petition he had read that morning, and he waited with interest to see what the children would do.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
5	recalled	recall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	petition	petition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	28	obj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recall** | participle | the boy's words *not said here* | the petition | the Caliph |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to caliph=Destination |
| 2 | **read** | past · perfect | boy | morning |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petition=Topic |
| 3 | **wait** | past | the boy's words |  |  |  |  | with interest | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | the boy's words *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **do** | would | the children |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 6 | **word** |  | the boy |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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