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title: So saying, Prince Bahman bade them farewell once more, and started o… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: So saying, Prince Bahman bade them farewell once more, and started on the high road, well mounted and fully armed. Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 86

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So saying, Prince Bahman bade them farewell once more, and started on the high road, well mounted and fully armed.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** say, bade, start, mount · **To what, where:** preparations, high road · **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 (Prince), 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:pg128:41:86
# text = So saying, Prince Bahman bade them farewell once more, and started on the high road, well mounted and fully armed.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Bahman	Bahman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	farewell	farewell	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	advmod	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bade** | past | Prince | preparations *= preparation* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **start** | past | Prince *not said here* |  |  | the high road |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **mount** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |

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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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