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title: The Sultan commanded that splendid apartments should be prepared for… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sultan commanded that splendid apartments should be prepared for the two brothers, and even insisted that they should sit at table with him. Who acts: Sultan, splendid apartments, apartments. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43, with its dependency 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 70

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The Sultan commanded that splendid apartments should be prepared for the two brothers, and even insisted that they should sit at table with him.

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**Who acts:** Sultan, splendid apartments, apartments · **What happens:** command, be, insist, sit · **To what, where:** table · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Sultan, splendid apartments, apartments), 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:pg128:43:70
# text = The Sultan commanded that splendid apartments should be prepared for the two brothers, and even insisted that they should sit at table with him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	apartments	apartment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	prepared	prepared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	insisted	insist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **command** | past | the Sultan |  |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | should | splendid apartments |  |  |  |  | for the two brothers; prepared *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **insist** *speech: other* | past | the Sultan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **sit** | should | apartments *= apartment* |  |  | table |  | with Sultan | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location |

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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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