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title: Haroun-al-Raschid was lost in astonishment at the wisdom of the chil… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Haroun-al-Raschid was lost in astonishment at the wisdom of the child, who had given so wise a verdict on the case which he himself was to hear on the morrow. " Who acts: child, game. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 14

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Haroun-al-Raschid was lost in astonishment at the wisdom of the child, who had given so wise a verdict on the case which he himself was to hear on the morrow. "

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**Who acts:** child, game · **What happens:** lose, give, be · **To what, where:** Haroun, astonishment, wise verdict, case, morrow

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, game), 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:pg128:37:14
# text = Haroun-al-Raschid was lost in astonishment at the wisdom of the child, who had given so wise a verdict on the case which he himself was to hear on the morrow. "
1	Haroun	Haroun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Raschid	Raschid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	verdict	verdict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obj	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
29	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	28	nmod:unmarked	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past · passive |  | Haroun and Raschid |  | astonishment |  | at the wisdom of the child | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **give** | past · perfect | the child | a wise verdict |  | the case |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent verdict=Theme on case=Asset |
| 3 | **is** | past | game |  |  | the morrow |  | hear *property* | tree rules |

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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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