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title: The Sultan, naturally enough, was still more furious the second time… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sultan, naturally enough, was still more furious the second time than the first, but when the same curious accident was repeated in the third year he could control himself no longer, and, to the great joy of the jealous sisters, commanded that the Sultana should be executed. Who acts: Sultan, pr
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 10

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The Sultan, naturally enough, was still more furious the second time than the first, but when the same curious accident was repeated in the third year he could control himself no longer, and, to the great joy of the jealous sisters, commanded that the Sultana should be executed.

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**Who acts:** Sultan, prince, great joy · **What happens:** be, repeat, control, command, execute, joy · **To what, where:** same curious accident, prince, Sultana, jealous sisters · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, prince, great joy), 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:pg128:41:10
# text = The Sultan, naturally enough, was still more furious the second time than the first, but when the same curious accident was repeated in the third year he could control himself no longer, and, to the great joy of the jealous sisters, commanded that the Sultana should be executed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
19	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	25	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	advcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	29	amod	_	_
29	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	control	control	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
33	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	32	obj	_	_
34	no	no	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
49	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	Sultana	Sultana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	nsubj:pass	_	_
52	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
53	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	aux:pass	_	_
54	executed	execute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Sultan |  |  |  | still; time | furious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **repeat** | past · passive |  | the same curious accident |  |  | year |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **control** | could | prince | prince |  |  |  | long *property* | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 4 | **command** | past | the great joy of the jealous sisters |  |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **execute** | should · passive |  | the Sultana |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **joy** |  |  | the jealous sisters |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling 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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