--- title: As they were making ready for a third assault the Sultan interfered,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: As they were making ready for a third assault the Sultan interfered, and, sending one of his officials to summon them, he said smiling, "If I let you go on, there will soon be no beasts left to hunt. Who acts: lion, Sultan, you, beasts. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lan --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/40/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/) / 40 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 40 As they were making ready for a third assault the Sultan interfered, and, sending one of his officials to summon them, he said smiling, "If I let you go on, there will soon be no beasts left to hunt. **Who acts:** lion, Sultan, you, beasts · **What happens:** make, interfere, send, summon, say, smile · **To what, where:** third assault, one, lion, you, beasts · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (lion, Sultan, you, beasts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:43:40 # text = As they were making ready for a third assault the Sultan interfered, and, sending one of his officials to summon them, he said smiling, "If I let you go on, there will soon be no beasts left to hunt. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 5 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 9 amod _ _ 9 assault assault NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 interfered interfere VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 sending send VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 officials official NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 summon summon VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 27 smiling smile VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 If if SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 let let VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 advcl _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 on on ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 37 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 40 expl _ _ 38 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 40 advmod _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 42 cop _ _ 41 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 42 det _ _ 42 beasts beast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 43 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 acl _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 hunt hunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past · progressive | lion | | | | | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 2 | **interfere** | past | the Sultan | a third assault *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **send** | gerund | lion *not said here* | one of Sultan's officials | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 4 | **summon** | to-infinitive | lion *not said here* | lion | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Sultan | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **smile** | gerund | Sultan *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **let** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | Sultan | you | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **go on** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | | no beasts | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **leave** *in a quote* | participle | | no beasts *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 11 | **hunt** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | no beasts *not said here* | | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/41/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/)