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title: The Sultan readily agreed to all that the prince proposed, and the f… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sultan readily agreed to all that the prince proposed, and the following morning he desired that the enchanted horse should be taken from the treasury, and brought into the great square of the palace. Who acts: Sultan. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, pa
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 29

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The Sultan readily agreed to all that the prince proposed, and the following morning he desired that the enchanted horse should be taken from the treasury, and brought into the great square of the palace.

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**Who acts:** Sultan · **What happens:** agree, propose, follow, desire, enchant, take · **To what, where:** prince, enchanted horse, treasury, great square

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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:pg128:40:29
# text = The Sultan readily agreed to all that the prince proposed, and the following morning he desired that the enchanted horse should be taken from the treasury, and brought into the great square of the palace.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	readily	readily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	proposed	propose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	treasury	treasury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | the Sultan |  |  |  |  | to all prince; readily *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **propose** | participle |  | all prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **desire** | past | Sultan |  |  |  | morning |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **enchant** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **take** | should · passive |  | the enchanted horse |  | the treasury |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from treasury=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **bring** | past | the Sultan *not said here* |  |  | the great square of the palace |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into square=Destination |

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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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