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title: "Yes," said the Sultan; "hasten to set him at liberty, so that I may… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Yes," said the Sultan; "hasten to set him at liberty, so that I may no longer hear his cries." Who acts: Sultan. 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 116

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"Yes," said the Sultan; "hasten to set him at liberty, so that I may no longer hear his cries."

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**Who acts:** Sultan · **What happens:** say, hasten, set, hear, cry · **To what, where:** Sultan, liberty, cries · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:pg128:5:116
# text = "Yes," said the Sultan; "hasten to set him at liberty, so that I may no longer hear his cries."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	hasten	hasten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	liberty	liberty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	23	mark	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	no	no	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Sultan |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hasten** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **set** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | Sultan |  | liberty |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme at liberty=Destination |
| 4 | **hear** *in a quote* | may | the Sultan *= sultan* | Sultan's cries |  |  |  | long *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus |
| 5 | **cry** *in a quote* |  | Sultan |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: 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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