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title: But she urged the matter so strongly that Zobeida was at last forced… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: But she urged the matter so strongly that Zobeida was at last forced to consent. " Who acts: Sadie, Zobeida. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 54

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But she urged the matter so strongly that Zobeida was at last forced to consent. "

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**Who acts:** Sadie, Zobeida · **What happens:** urge, force, consent · **To what, where:** matter, Zobeida

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sadie, Zobeida), 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:pg128:6:54
# text = But she urged the matter so strongly that Zobeida was at last forced to consent. "
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	urged	urge	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	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	strongly	strongly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	Zobeida	Zobeida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
11	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	consent	consent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **urge** | past | Sadie |  | the matter |  |  | strongly *property* | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent matter=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **force** | past · passive |  | Zobeida |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **consent** | to-infinitive | Zobeida *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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