--- title: The Sultan who was not accustomed to see his offers rejected inquire… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: The Sultan who was not accustomed to see his offers rejected inquired their reasons, and Prince Bahman explained that they did not wish to leave their sister, and were accustomed to do nothing without consulting all three together. Who acts: Bahman, Sultan. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertai --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/44/) [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/) / 44 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 44 The Sultan who was not accustomed to see his offers rejected inquired their reasons, and Prince Bahman explained that they did not wish to leave their sister, and were accustomed to do nothing without consulting all three together. **Who acts:** Bahman, Sultan · **What happens:** not accustom, see, inquire, explain, not wish, leave · **To what, where:** Sultan, offers, sister, nothing, three · **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 (Bahman, Sultan), 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:pg128:43:44 # text = The Sultan who was not accustomed to see his offers rejected inquired their reasons, and Prince Bahman explained that they did not wish to leave their sister, and were accustomed to do nothing without consulting all three together. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 accustomed accustom VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 offers offer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 rejected reject VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 inquired inquire VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 ccomp _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod:desc _ _ 18 Bahman Bahman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 explained explain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 wish wish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 accustomed accustom VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 34 obj _ _ 36 without without SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 37 consulting consult VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 advcl _ _ 38 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 39 det _ _ 39 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 obj _ _ 40 together together ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **accustom** | past · passive | | the Sultan | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **inquire** *speech: other* | past · passive | | Sultan's offers | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **explain** *speech: assert* | past | Bahman Prince | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **wish** | past · do-support | Bahman | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **leave** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Bahman *not said here* | offers's sister | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme | | 7 | **accustom** | past · passive | Bahman Prince *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **do** | to-infinitive | Bahman Prince *not said here* | nothing | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | | 9 | **consult** | gerund | Bahman Prince *not said here* | all three | | | | together *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Theme | | 10 | **offer** | | Sultan | | | | | | nom offer «communication transitive»: poss=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 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/45/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/)