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title: So the Sultan gave orders that the habits of mourning worn by the pe… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Sultan gave orders that the habits of mourning worn by the people should be thrown off and that there should be a concert of drums, trumpets and cymbals. Who acts: Sultan. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 22

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So the Sultan gave orders that the habits of mourning worn by the people should be thrown off and that there should be a concert of drums, trumpets and cymbals.

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**Who acts:** Sultan · **What happens:** give, wear, throw off, be · **To what, where:** orders, mourning, habits, concert

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan), 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:pg128:39:22
# text = So the Sultan gave orders that the habits of mourning worn by the people should be thrown off and that there should be a concert of drums, trumpets and cymbals.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	habits	habit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	mourning	mourning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:agent	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
22	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	concert	concert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	cymbals	cymbal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the Sultan | orders |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 2 | **wear** | participle |  | mourning *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **throw off** | should · passive |  | the habits of mourning |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | infinitive |  | a concert |  |  |  | of drums and trumpets and cymbals | 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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