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title: The Sultan then rested, and the young king gave himself up to happy… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sultan then rested, and the young king gave himself up to happy hopes of release. Who acts: Sultan, young king, release. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 105

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The Sultan then rested, and the young king gave himself up to happy hopes of release.

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**Who acts:** Sultan, young king, release · **What happens:** rest, give up, hope · **To what, where:** Sultan

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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, young king, release), 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:pg128:5:105
# text = The Sultan then rested, and the young king gave himself up to happy hopes of release.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	iobj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	release	release	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | past | the Sultan |  |  |  | then |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give up** | past | the young king |  | Sultan |  |  | to happy hopes of release | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to hope=Recipient |
| 3 | **hope** |  | release |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=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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