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title: After explaining the peculiar qualities of each, the princess contin… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: After explaining the peculiar qualities of each, the princess continued: "It was a Mussulman devotee who told me all this, and where they might all be found. Who acts: princess, Bird, Mussulman devotee. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41, with its depe
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 72

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After explaining the peculiar qualities of each, the princess continued: "It was a Mussulman devotee who told me all this, and where they might all be found.

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**Who acts:** princess, Bird, Mussulman devotee · **What happens:** explain, continue, be, tell, find · **To what, where:** peculiar qualities, Mussulman devotee, this, princess, qualities · **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 (princess, Bird, Mussulman devotee), 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:pg128:41:72
# text = After explaining the peculiar qualities of each, the princess continued: "It was a Mussulman devotee who told me all this, and where they might all be found.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	explaining	explain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	peculiar	peculiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	qualities	quality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Mussulman	Mussulman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	devotee	devotee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
23	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	advmod	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	all	all	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | gerund | the princess *not said here* | the peculiar qualities of each |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quality=Topic |
| 2 | **continue** | past | the princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | Bird | a Mussulman devotee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | a Mussulman devotee | this | the princess *= princess* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 5 | **find** *in a quote* | might · passive |  | qualities *= quality* |  |  |  | all *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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