--- title: She would have continued, but her tears choked her, and the Sultan o… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: She would have continued, but her tears choked her, and the Sultan of Cashmere, convinced by her beauty and her distinguished air of the truth of her tale, ordered his followers to cut off the Indian's head, which was done immediately. Who acts: Princess, tears, Sultan, followers. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, tears, Sultan, followers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:39:56 # text = She would have continued, but her tears choked her, and the Sultan of Cashmere, convinced by her beauty and her distinguished air of the truth of her tale, ordered his followers to cut off the Indian's head, which was done immediately. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 aux _ _ 4 continued continue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 choked choke VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Cashmere Cashmere PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 convinced convince VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 distinguished distinguished ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 33 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 followers follower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 38 off off ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 40 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 's 's PART POS _ 40 case _ _ 42 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 46 nsubj _ _ 45 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux:pass _ _ 46 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 acl:relcl _ _ 47 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **continue** | would · perfect | Princess | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **choke** | past | Princess's tears | | Princess | | | | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Destination | | 3 | **convince** | participle | | the Sultan of Cashmere *not said here* | | | | by Princess's beauty and Princess's distinguished air of the truth of Princess's tale | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **order** | past | the Sultan of Cashmere | Sultan's followers | | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent follower=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **cut off** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Sultan's followers *not said here* | the Indian head | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | | 6 | **do** | past · passive | | the Indian head | | | | immediately *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 7 | **tell** | | Princess | | | | | | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/39/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/39/57/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/39/)