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title: So he consulted with the young king over the best way to bring this… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: So he consulted with the young king over the best way to bring this about, and they agreed their plan should be put in effect the next day. Who acts: Sultan, hills. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 104

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So he consulted with the young king over the best way to bring this about, and they agreed their plan should be put in effect the next day.

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**Who acts:** Sultan, hills · **What happens:** consult, bring, agree, put, plan · **To what, where:** best way, this, plan, effect

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, hills), 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:pg128:5:104
# text = So he consulted with the young king over the best way to bring this about, and they agreed their plan should be put in effect the next day.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	consulted	consult	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
14	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	obj	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consult** | past | Sultan |  |  | the best way |  | with the young king | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with king=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **bring** | to-infinitive | Sultan *not said here* | this |  |  |  | about *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent this=Theme |
| 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | hills *= hill* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **put** | should · passive |  | hills's plan |  | effect | day |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in effect=Destination |
| 5 | **plan** |  | hills *= hill* |  |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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