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title: Then Prince Perviz pursued a lion and Prince Bahman a bear, and in a… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Prince Perviz pursued a lion and Prince Bahman a bear, and in a very few minutes they, too, lay dead. Who acts: Prince, lion. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 39

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Then Prince Perviz pursued a lion and Prince Bahman a bear, and in a very few minutes they, too, lay dead.

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**Who acts:** Prince, lion · **What happens:** pursue, lay · **To what, where:** lion

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, lion), 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:pg128:43:39
# text = Then Prince Perviz pursued a lion and Prince Bahman a bear, and in a very few minutes they, too, lay dead.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Perviz	Perviz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	pursued	pursue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Bahman	Bahman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
24	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pursue** | past | Prince | a lion and Bahman  Prince |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lay** | present | lion |  |  |  | minute | dead *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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