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title: It was during this time that Prince Firouz Schah, wandering sadly an… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: It was during this time that Prince Firouz Schah, wandering sadly and hopelessly from place to place, arrived in a large city of India, where he heard a great deal of talk about the Princess of Bengal who had gone out of her senses, on the very day that she was to have been married to the Sultan of 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 77

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It was during this time that Prince Firouz Schah, wandering sadly and hopelessly from place to place, arrived in a large city of India, where he heard a great deal of talk about the Princess of Bengal who had gone out of her senses, on the very day that she was to have been married to the Sultan of Cashmere.

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**Who acts:** cure, Firouz, rest, talk · **What happens:** be, wonder, arrive, hear, go out, marry · **To what, where:** that, large city, great deal, senses, Princess, talk

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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 (cure, Firouz, rest, talk), 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:pg128:39:77
# text = It was during this time that Prince Firouz Schah, wandering sadly and hopelessly from place to place, arrived in a large city of India, where he heard a great deal of talk about the Princess of Bengal who had gone out of her senses, on the very day that she was to have been married to the Sultan of Cashmere.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	during	during	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Firouz	Firouz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
9	Schah	Schah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
12	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	hopelessly	hopelessly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
20	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	about	about	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Bengal	Bengal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
42	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	acl:relcl	_	_
44	out	out	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	senses	sens	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	on	on	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	very	very	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
53	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
54	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj:pass	_	_
55	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	aux:pass	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	59	mark	_	_
57	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	aux	_	_
58	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	59	aux:pass	_	_
59	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	advcl	_	_
60	to	to	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	_
63	of	of	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	Cashmere	Cashmere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | cure |  |  |  | during this time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | Firouz  Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sadly *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **arrive** | past | Firouz  Prince | that |  | a large city of India |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hear** | past | rest | a great deal of talk about the Princess of Bengal |  |  | day |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer deal=Stimulus |
| 5 | **go out** | past · perfect | talk about the Princess of Bengal | Princess's senses |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **marry** | past · perfect · passive |  | Princess |  |  |  | to the Sultan of Cashmere | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to sultan=Co-Patient |
| 7 | **deal** |  |  | talk about the Princess of Bengal |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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