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title: However he contented himself with assuring her how happy he was to s… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: However he contented himself with assuring her how happy he was to see her health so much improved, and exhorted her to make every use of so clever a physician, and to repose entire confidence in him. Who acts: Sultan. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 20

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However he contented himself with assuring her how happy he was to see her health so much improved, and exhorted her to make every use of so clever a physician, and to repose entire confidence in him.

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**Who acts:** Sultan · **What happens:** content, assure, see, improve, exhort, make · **To what, where:** Sultan, princess, health, use, entire confidence, clever physician · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:pg128:40:20
# text = However he contented himself with assuring her how happy he was to see her health so much improved, and exhorted her to make every use of so clever a physician, and to repose entire confidence in him.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	contented	content	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	assuring	assure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	much	much	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	improved	improve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	exhorted	exhort	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
25	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	physician	physician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	repose	repose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
36	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **content** | past | Sultan | Sultan |  |  |  | however *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer |
| 2 | **assure** | gerund | Sultan *not said here* |  | princess |  |  | happy *property* | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 3 | **see** | past | Sultan | princess's health |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **improve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **exhort** | past | Sultan *not said here* | princess |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | Sultan *not said here* | every use of a clever physician |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset use=Product |
| 7 | **repose** | to-infinitive | Sultan *not said here* | entire confidence |  |  |  | in Sultan | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location confidence=Theme |
| 8 | **use** |  |  | a clever physician |  |  |  |  | nom use «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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