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title: Without an instant's delay he sent for the grand-vizir, and ordered… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Without an instant's delay he sent for the grand-vizir, and ordered him to seize and question the Sultana's sisters that very day. Who acts: Sultan, that. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 60

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Without an instant's delay he sent for the grand-vizir, and ordered him to seize and question the Sultana's sisters that very day.

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**Who acts:** Sultan, that · **What happens:** send, order, seize, question, day · **To what, where:** Sultan, sisters

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, that), 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:pg128:44:60
# text = Without an instant's delay he sent for the grand-vizir, and ordered him to seize and question the Sultana's sisters that very day.
1	Without	without	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	question	question	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Sultana	Sultana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | Sultan |  |  |  |  | without a instant's delay; for the grand vizir | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **order** | past | Sultan *not said here* |  | Sultan |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **seize** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Sultan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **question** *speech: other* | infinitive | Sultan *not said here* |  | the Sultana's sisters |  |  |  | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient |
| 5 | **day** |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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