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title: Their answer was that madness is of so many different kinds that it… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Their answer was that madness is of so many different kinds that it was impossible to give an opinion on the case without seeing the princess, so the Sultan gave orders that they were to be introduced into her chamber, one by one, every man according to his rank. Who acts: answer, Sultan, man, docto
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 71

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Their answer was that madness is of so many different kinds that it was impossible to give an opinion on the case without seeing the princess, so the Sultan gave orders that they were to be introduced into her chamber, one by one, every man according to his rank.

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**Who acts:** answer, Sultan, man, doctors · **What happens:** be, give, see, introduce, accord, answer · **To what, where:** opinion, case, princess, orders, doctors, chamber

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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 (answer, Sultan, man, doctors), 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:pg128:39:71
# text = Their answer was that madness is of so many different kinds that it was impossible to give an opinion on the case without seeing the princess, so the Sultan gave orders that they were to be introduced into her chamber, one by one, every man according to his rank.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
5	madness	madness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	expl	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	appos	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
32	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	advcl	_	_
39	into	into	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	appos	_	_
44	by	by	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	48	det	_	_
48	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
49	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	48	acl	_	_
50	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	fixed	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | doctors's answer |  |  |  |  | of many different kinds | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | a opinion |  | the case |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent opinion=Theme on case=Asset |
| 4 | **see** | gerund |  | the princess |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus |
| 5 | **give** | past | the Sultan | orders |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 6 | **introduce** | past · passive |  | doctors *= doctor* |  | Princess's chamber and every man |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 7 | **accord** | gerund | every man *not said here* | Sultan's rank |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent rank=Theme |
| 8 | **answer** |  | doctors *= doctor* |  |  |  |  |  | nom answer «communication 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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