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title: Now the Sultan of the Indies, curious to see a young prince with suc… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the Sultan of the Indies, curious to see a young prince with such strange tastes, sent an ambassador to my father, laden with rich presents, and a warm invitation to visit his court. Who acts: Sultan. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8, with its dep
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 34

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Now the Sultan of the Indies, curious to see a young prince with such strange tastes, sent an ambassador to my father, laden with rich presents, and a warm invitation to visit his court.

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**Who acts:** Sultan · **What happens:** see, send, lade, visit · **To what, where:** young prince, ambassador, father, court

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. 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.

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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:pg128:8:34
# text = Now the Sultan of the Indies, curious to see a young prince with such strange tastes, sent an ambassador to my father, laden with rich presents, and a warm invitation to visit his court.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Indies	Indy	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	tastes	taste	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
19	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	ambassador	ambassador	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	laden	lade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	invitation	invitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	parataxis	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	acl	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | to-infinitive | the Sultan of the Indies *not said here* | a young prince |  |  |  | with such strange tastes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus |
| 2 | **send** | past | the Sultan of the Indies | a ambassador | my father |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ambassador=Theme to father=Destination |
| 3 | **lade** | participle |  | my father *not said here* |  |  |  | with rich presents | tree rules |
| 4 | **visit** | to-infinitive | the Sultan of the Indies *not said here* | prince's court |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Co-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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