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title: When night came the Sultan called his vizir, and said to him, "I hav… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: When night came the Sultan called his vizir, and said to him, "I have resolved to clear up this mystery. Who acts: night, Sultan, I. 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 60

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When night came the Sultan called his vizir, and said to him, "I have resolved to clear up this mystery.

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**Who acts:** night, Sultan, I · **What happens:** come, call, say, resolve, clear up · **To what, where:** vizir, Sultan, mystery · **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 (night, Sultan, I), 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:pg128:5:60
# text = When night came the Sultan called his vizir, and said to him, "I have resolved to clear up this mystery.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	2	mark	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	clear	clear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	mystery	mystery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | night |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | past | the Sultan | Sultan's vizir |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent vizir=Recipient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | Sultan |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 4 | **resolve** *in a quote* | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **clear up** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | this mystery |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mystery=Source |

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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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