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title: Early next day the Sultan and Sultana, dressed in robes of state and… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Early next day the Sultan and Sultana, dressed in robes of state and followed by all the court, set out for the country house of their children. 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 67

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Early next day the Sultan and Sultana, dressed in robes of state and followed by all the court, set out for the country house of their children.

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**What happens:** dress, follow, set out · **To what, where:** Sultan, robes

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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: 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:pg128:44:67
# text = Early next day the Sultan and Sultana, dressed in robes of state and followed by all the court, set out for the country house of their children.
1	Early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Sultana	Sultana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | participle |  | the Sultan and Sultana *not said here* |  | robes of state |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **follow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by all court | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by court=Location |
| 3 | **set out** | participle · passive |  | the Sultan and Sultana |  |  | day | for the country house of house's children | 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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