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title: Three boys appeared, and the grand-vizir inquired which had represen… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Three boys appeared, and the grand-vizir inquired which had represented the Cadi in their game of the previous evening. Who acts: Three boys. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 23

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Three boys appeared, and the grand-vizir inquired which had represented the Cadi in their game of the previous evening.

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**Who acts:** Three boys · **What happens:** appear, inquire, represent · **To what, where:** grand vizir, game

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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 (Three boys), 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:pg128:37:23
# text = Three boys appeared, and the grand-vizir inquired which had represented the Cadi in their game of the previous evening.
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	represented	represent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Cadi	Cadi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	previous	previous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | Three boys |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **inquire** *speech: other* | participle |  | the grand vizir *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **represent** | past · perfect · passive |  | the grand vizir |  | dealers's game of the previous evening |  |  | 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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