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title: Days passed in this manner, till at last the Sultan of Cashmere deci… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Days passed in this manner, till at last the Sultan of Cashmere decided to summon all the doctors of his court to consult together over her sad state. Who acts: Days, Sultan. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 70

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Days passed in this manner, till at last the Sultan of Cashmere decided to summon all the doctors of his court to consult together over her sad state.

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**Who acts:** Days, Sultan · **What happens:** pass, decide, summon, consult · **To what, where:** manner, doctors, sad state

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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 (Days, 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:pg128:39:70
# text = Days passed in this manner, till at last the Sultan of Cashmere decided to summon all the doctors of his court to consult together over her sad state.
1	Days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	till	till	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Cashmere	Cashmere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	summon	summon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	consult	consult	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
25	together	together	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | Days |  |  | this manner |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in manner=Location |
| 2 | **decide** | past | the Sultan of Cashmere |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **summon** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Sultan of Cashmere *not said here* | all doctors of Sultan's court |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doctor=Recipient |
| 4 | **consult** | to-infinitive | the Sultan of Cashmere *not said here* |  |  | announcement's sad state |  | together *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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