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title: Now early that evening the Caliph secretly left the palace, accompan… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Now early that evening the Caliph secretly left the palace, accompanied by his grand-vizir, Giafar, and Mesrour, chief of the eunuchs, all three wearing the dresses of merchants. Who acts: Caliph. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6, with its dependency 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 69

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Now early that evening the Caliph secretly left the palace, accompanied by his grand-vizir, Giafar, and Mesrour, chief of the eunuchs, all three wearing the dresses of merchants.

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**Who acts:** Caliph · **What happens:** leave, accompany, wear · **To what, where:** palace, dresses

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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 (Caliph), 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:pg128:6:69
# text = Now early that evening the Caliph secretly left the palace, accompanied by his grand-vizir, Giafar, and Mesrour, chief of the eunuchs, all three wearing the dresses of merchants.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
15	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Giafar	Giafar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Mesrour	Mesrour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	eunuchs	eunuch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nmod	_	_
31	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	acl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	dresses	dress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | the Caliph | the palace |  |  | evening | secretly *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme |
| 2 | **accompany** | participle |  | the palace *not said here* |  |  |  | by Caliph's grand vizir | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by vizir=Destination |
| 3 | **wear** | gerund |  | the dresses of merchants |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme |

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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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