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title: The Calenders and the Caliph looked at each other, and whispered tog… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The Calenders and the Caliph looked at each other, and whispered together, unheard by Zobeida and Sadie, who were tending their fainting sister. Who acts: Calenders, Zobeida. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 3

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The Calenders and the Caliph looked at each other, and whispered together, unheard by Zobeida and Sadie, who were tending their fainting sister.

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**Who acts:** Calenders, Zobeida · **What happens:** look, whisper, tend · **To what, where:** fainting sister

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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 (Calenders, 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:pg128:7:3
# text = The Calenders and the Caliph looked at each other, and whispered together, unheard by Zobeida and Sadie, who were tending their fainting sister.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Calenders	calender	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	6	obl	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
13	together	together	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	unheard	unheard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Zobeida	Zobeida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Sadie	Sadie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	tending	tend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	fainting	fainting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the Calenders and the Caliph |  |  |  |  | at each | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme |
| 2 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | participle | the Calenders and the Caliph *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by Zobeida and Sadie; together *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by zobeida=Location |
| 3 | **tend** | past · progressive | Zobeida and Sadie | Calenders's fainting sister |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=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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