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title: He dismounted from his horse, and bowed low before the holy man, say… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: He dismounted from his horse, and bowed low before the holy man, saying by way of greeting, "My father, may your days be long in the land, and may all your wishes be fulfilled!" Who acts: prince, days, your. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41, with its
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 91

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He dismounted from his horse, and bowed low before the holy man, saying by way of greeting, "My father, may your days be long in the land, and may all your wishes be fulfilled!"

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**Who acts:** prince, days, your · **What happens:** dismount, bow, say, be, fulfil, wish · **To what, where:** land, wishes · **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, days, your), 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:pg128:41:91
# text = He dismounted from his horse, and bowed low before the holy man, saying by way of greeting, "My father, may your days be long in the land, and may all your wishes be fulfilled!"
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dismounted	dismount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	bowed	bow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
9	low	low	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
10	before	before	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
29	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
35	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
36	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	38	det:predet	_	_
37	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dismount** | past | prince |  |  |  |  | from prince's horse | tree rules |
| 2 | **bow** | participle | prince *not said here* |  |  |  | before the holy man | low *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before man=Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | gerund | prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by way of greeting | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | may | your days |  |  | the land |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **fulfil** *in a quote* | may · passive |  | your wishes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **wish** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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