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title: The seven culprits all thought their last hour had come, and the Cal… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The seven culprits all thought their last hour had come, and the Caliph repented bitterly that he had not taken the vizir's advice. Who acts: seven culprits, last hour, Caliph, man. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 21

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The seven culprits all thought their last hour had come, and the Caliph repented bitterly that he had not taken the vizir's advice.

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**Who acts:** seven culprits, last hour, Caliph, man · **What happens:** think, come, repent, not take · **To what, where:** advice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seven culprits, last hour, Caliph, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg128:621`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:7:21
# text = The seven culprits all thought their last hour had come, and the Caliph repented bitterly that he had not taken the vizir's advice.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	culprits	culprit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Caliph	caliph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	repented	repent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	ccomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the seven culprits |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past · perfect | culprits's last hour |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **repent** | past | the Caliph |  |  |  |  | bitterly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **take** | past · perfect | man | the vizir's advice |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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