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title: He travelled with his accustomed speed, and Prince Firouz Schah guid… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: He travelled with his accustomed speed, and Prince Firouz Schah guided him so well that in two hours and a half from the time of starting, he saw the capital of Persia lying beneath him. Who acts: Prince, Firouz, capital. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, par
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 9

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He travelled with his accustomed speed, and Prince Firouz Schah guided him so well that in two hours and a half from the time of starting, he saw the capital of Persia lying beneath him.

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**Who acts:** Prince, Firouz, capital · **What happens:** travel, accustom, guide, see, lie · **To what, where:** Prince, capital

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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 (Prince, Firouz, capital), 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:pg128:39:9
# text = He travelled with his accustomed speed, and Prince Firouz Schah guided him so well that in two hours and a half from the time of starting, he saw the capital of Persia lying beneath him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:desc	_	_
10	Firouz	Firouz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	Schah	Schah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	guided	guide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	19	conj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	starting	starting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Persia	Persia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
36	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | past | Prince |  |  |  |  | with Prince's accustomed speed | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **accustom** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **guide** | past | Firouz  Prince | Prince |  |  | hour; time | well *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | past | Prince | the capital of Persia |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer capital=Stimulus |
| 5 | **lie** | gerund | the capital of Persia *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beneath Prince | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath he=Location |

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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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