--- title: The Sultan looked round to discover who it was who thus bemoaned his… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: The Sultan looked round to discover who it was who thus bemoaned his fate, and at last saw a handsome young man, richly clothed, who was sitting on a throne raised slightly from the ground. Who acts: Sultan. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5, with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/5/75/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/5/) / 75 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 75 The Sultan looked round to discover who it was who thus bemoaned his fate, and at last saw a handsome young man, richly clothed, who was sitting on a throne raised slightly from the ground. **Who acts:** Sultan · **What happens:** look, discover, be, see, clothe, sit · **To what, where:** handsome young man, last, throne, ground 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. **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:pg128:5:75 # text = The Sultan looked round to discover who it was who thus bemoaned his fate, and at last saw a handsome young man, richly clothed, who was sitting on a throne raised slightly from the ground. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 discover discover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj:outer _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 11 thus thus ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 bemoaned bemoan VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 fate fate NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obl _ _ 19 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 handsome handsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 richly richly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 clothed clothe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 throne throne NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 raised raise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl _ _ 35 slightly slightly ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | the Sultan | | | | | round *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **discover** | to-infinitive | the Sultan *not said here* | | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **is** | past | | | | | | bemoan, thus *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **see** | past | | a handsome young man | | last | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | | 5 | **clothe** | participle | | | | | | richly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **sit** | past · progressive | | | | a throne | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location | | 7 | **raise** | participle | | a throne *not said here* | | the ground | | slightly *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent from ground=Destination | | 8 | **fate** | | Sultan | | | | | | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/5/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/5/76/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/5/)