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title: The Caliph ordered the Cadi to learn how to deal out justice from th… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The Caliph ordered the Cadi to learn how to deal out justice from the mouth of a child, and sent the boy home, with a purse containing a hundred pieces of gold as a mark of his favour. Who acts: Caliph, purse. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37, with i
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 45

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The Caliph ordered the Cadi to learn how to deal out justice from the mouth of a child, and sent the boy home, with a purse containing a hundred pieces of gold as a mark of his favour.

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**Who acts:** Caliph, purse · **What happens:** order, learn, deal out, send, contain, mark · **To what, where:** Cadi, justice, mouth, boy, hundred pieces, favour · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Caliph, purse), 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:pg128:37:45
# text = The Caliph ordered the Cadi to learn how to deal out justice from the mouth of a child, and sent the boy home, with a purse containing a hundred pieces of gold as a mark of his favour.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Cadi	Cadi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	deal	deal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	home	home	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
29	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | the Caliph |  | the Cadi |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cadi=Theme |
| 2 | **learn** | to-infinitive | the Caliph *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **deal out** | to-infinitive |  | justice |  | the mouth of a child |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent justice=Theme |
| 4 | **send** | past | the Caliph *not said here* | the boy |  |  |  | with a purse; home *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme |
| 5 | **contain** | gerund | a purse *not said here* | hundred pieces of gold |  |  |  | as a mark of Caliph's favour | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot piece=Theme |
| 6 | **mark** |  |  | Caliph's favour |  |  |  |  | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **favour** |  | Caliph |  |  |  |  |  | nom favour «feeling 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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