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title: When the King of Cashmere had quitted her presence the evening befor… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: When the King of Cashmere had quitted her presence the evening before, he had resolved that the sun should not set again without the princess becoming his wife, and at daybreak proclamation of his intention was made throughout the town, by the sound of drums, trumpets, cymbals, and other instruments
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 62

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When the King of Cashmere had quitted her presence the evening before, he had resolved that the sun should not set again without the princess becoming his wife, and at daybreak proclamation of his intention was made throughout the town, by the sound of drums, trumpets, cymbals, and other instruments calculated to fill the heart with joy.

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**Who acts:** sun, princess, sound · **What happens:** quitt, resolve, not set, become, make, calculate · **To what, where:** King, wife, daybreak proclamation, other instruments, heart, intention

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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 (sun, princess, sound), 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:pg128:39:62
# text = When the King of Cashmere had quitted her presence the evening before, he had resolved that the sun should not set again without the princess becoming his wife, and at daybreak proclamation of his intention was made throughout the town, by the sound of drums, trumpets, cymbals, and other instruments calculated to fill the heart with joy.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Cashmere	Cashmere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	quitted	quitt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	before	before	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
23	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	without	without	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	daybreak	daybreak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	intention	intention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
40	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	by	by	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
50	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	cymbals	cymbal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
55	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
57	calculated	calculate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	56	acl	_	_
58	to	to	PART	TO	_	59	mark	_	_
59	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	xcomp	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obj	_	_
62	with	with	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quitt** | past · perfect · passive |  | the King of Cashmere |  |  | evening | other instruments *obl*; before *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **resolve** | past · perfect · passive |  | King |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **set** | should | the sun |  |  |  | again | without the princess | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **become** | gerund | the princess *not said here* | sun's wife |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient wife=Result |
| 5 | **make** | past · passive | the sound of drums and trumpets and cymbals |  |  | daybreak proclamation of sun's intention | throughout the town |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 6 | **calculate** | participle |  | other instruments *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **fill** | to-infinitive |  | the heart |  |  |  | with joy | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent heart=Patient with joy=Instrument |
| 8 | **proclaim** |  |  | sun's intention |  |  |  |  | nom proclamation «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 9 | **intend** |  | sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom intention «cognition 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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