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title: They obtained permission of the Sultan to take up their abode in the… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: They obtained permission of the Sultan to take up their abode in the palace for some weeks, and never left their sister night or day. Who acts: plotters. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 80

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They obtained permission of the Sultan to take up their abode in the palace for some weeks, and never left their sister night or day.

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**Who acts:** plotters · **What happens:** obtain, take up, not leave, permit · **To what, where:** permission, abode, palace, Sultan

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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 (plotters), 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:pg128:40:80
# text = They obtained permission of the Sultan to take up their abode in the palace for some weeks, and never left their sister night or day.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	abode	abode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obtain** | past | plotters *= plotter* | permission of the Sultan |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset permission=Theme |
| 2 | **take up** | to-infinitive | plotters *= plotter* *not said here* | plotters's abode |  | the palace | week |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent abode=Value in palace=Location |
| 3 | **not** **leave** | past | plotters *= plotter* *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **permit** |  |  | the Sultan |  |  |  |  | nom permission «communication 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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