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title: That very evening, the Caliph, with his grand-vizir Giafar, and Mesr… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: That very evening, the Caliph, with his grand-vizir Giafar, and Mesrour, chief of the eunuchs, all three disguised, as was their habit, went out to take a stroll through the town. Who acts: Caliph. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36, with its dependenc
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 98

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That very evening, the Caliph, with his grand-vizir Giafar, and Mesrour, chief of the eunuchs, all three disguised, as was their habit, went out to take a stroll through the town.

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**Who acts:** Caliph · **What happens:** disguise, be, go out, take · **To what, where:** stroll, town

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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 (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:pg128:36:98
# text = That very evening, the Caliph, with his grand-vizir Giafar, and Mesrour, chief of the eunuchs, all three disguised, as was their habit, went out to take a stroll through the town.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
13	Giafar	Giafar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Mesrour	Mesrour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	eunuchs	eunuch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	list	_	_
25	disguised	disguise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
33	out	out	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	stroll	stroll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	through	through	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disguise** | past | the Caliph and Mesrour |  |  |  | evening |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as eunuchs's habit | tree rules |
| 3 | **go out** | past | the Caliph and Mesrour *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | to-infinitive | the Caliph and Mesrour *not said here* | a stroll |  | the town |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stroll=Theme |

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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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