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title: That of the youngest was marked by all the magnificence that was cus… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: That of the youngest was marked by all the magnificence that was customary at the marriage of the Shah of Persia, while the festivities attending the nuptials of the Sultan's baker and his chief cook were only such as were suitable to their conditions. Who acts: magnificence, that, festivities. A se
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 69

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That of the youngest was marked by all the magnificence that was customary at the marriage of the Shah of Persia, while the festivities attending the nuptials of the Sultan's baker and his chief cook were only such as were suitable to their conditions.

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**Who acts:** magnificence, that, festivities · **What happens:** mark, be, attend, marry, condition · **To what, where:** That, customary, marriage, nuptials, Shah

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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 (magnificence, that, festivities), 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:pg128:40:69
# text = That of the youngest was marked by all the magnificence that was customary at the marriage of the Shah of Persia, while the festivities attending the nuptials of the Sultan's baker and his chief cook were only such as were suitable to their conditions.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	magnificence	magnificence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	customary	customary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Shah	Shah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Persia	Persia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
23	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	festivities	festivity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
26	attending	attend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	nuptials	nuptial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	baker	baker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	only	only	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	43	advmod	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	40	fixed	_	_
42	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
43	suitable	suitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** | past · passive | all magnificence and customary | That |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | past | that | customary |  | the marriage of the Shah of Persia |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **attend** | gerund | the festivities *not said here* | the nuptials of the Sultan's baker and Sultan's chief cook |  |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nuptial=Goal |
| 4 | **is** | past | the festivities |  |  |  |  | such *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | all magnificence and customary *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to festivities's conditions; suitable *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **marry** |  |  | the Shah of Persia |  |  |  |  | nom marriage «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **condition** |  | festivities *= festivity* |  |  |  |  |  | nom condition «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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