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title: When the Prince of Persia, in the disguise of a physician, was broug… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Prince of Persia, in the disguise of a physician, was brought before him, the Sultan wasted no time in talking, beyond remarking that the mere sight of a doctor threw the princess into transports of rage. Who acts: Sultan, time, mere sight. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 2

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When the Prince of Persia, in the disguise of a physician, was brought before him, the Sultan wasted no time in talking, beyond remarking that the mere sight of a doctor threw the princess into transports of rage.

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**Who acts:** Sultan, time, mere sight · **What happens:** bring, waste, talk, remark, throw, sight · **To what, where:** Prince, princess, transports, doctor

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, time, mere sight), 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:pg128:40:2
# text = When the Prince of Persia, in the disguise of a physician, was brought before him, the Sultan wasted no time in talking, beyond remarking that the mere sight of a doctor threw the princess into transports of rage.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Persia	Persia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	disguise	disguise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	physician	physician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
16	before	before	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	wasted	waste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	remarking	remark	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	conj	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	transports	transport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past · passive |  | the Prince of Persia |  |  | before Persia |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before he=Destination |
| 2 | **waste** | past | the Sultan |  |  |  | time |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **talk** | gerund | no time *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **remark** *speech: assert* | gerund | no time *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **throw** | past | the mere sight of a doctor | the princess |  |  |  | into transports of rage *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer princess=Theme into transport=Result |
| 6 | **sight** |  |  | a doctor |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition 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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