--- title: The following morning, when the Sultan inquired if they had spoken t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: The following morning, when the Sultan inquired if they had spoken to their sister and what advice she had given them, Prince Bahman replied that they were ready to agree to his Highness's wishes, and that their sister had reproved them for their hesitation about the matter. Who acts: Sultan, Bahman --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/66/) [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/) / 66 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 66 The following morning, when the Sultan inquired if they had spoken to their sister and what advice she had given them, Prince Bahman replied that they were ready to agree to his Highness's wishes, and that their sister had reproved them for their hesitation about the matter. **Who acts:** Sultan, Bahman, sister, Highness · **What happens:** follow, inquire, speak, give, reply, be · **To what, where:** Bahman · **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 (Sultan, Bahman, sister, Highness), 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:pg128:43:66 # text = The following morning, when the Sultan inquired if they had spoken to their sister and what advice she had given them, Prince Bahman replied that they were ready to agree to his Highness's wishes, and that their sister had reproved them for their hesitation about the matter. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 amod _ _ 3 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 inquired inquire VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 if if SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 ccomp _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 17 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod:desc _ _ 25 Bahman Bahman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 ccomp _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 agree agree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 Highness highness NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 36 's 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 wishes wish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 40 that that SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 41 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 43 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 reproved reprove VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ _ 45 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ _ 46 for for ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 hesitation hesitation NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 49 about about ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **inquire** *speech: other* | past | the Sultan | | | | morning | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | Bahman | | | | | to Bahman's sister | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to sister=Co-Agent | | 4 | **give** | past · perfect · passive | | Bahman | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient they=Theme | | 5 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Bahman Prince | | | | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | past | Bahman | | | | | ready *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **agree** *speech: agree* | to-infinitive | Bahman *not said here* | | | | | to Sultan's Highness's wishes | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **reprove** | past · perfect | Bahman's sister | Bahman | | | | for Bahman's hesitation about the matter | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme for hesitation=Attribute | | 9 | **wish** | | Sultan's Highness | | | | | | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | | 10 | **hesitate** | | Bahman | | | | | about the matter | nom hesitation «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent about=obl | 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 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/67/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/)