--- title: The sun had not long risen before the Sultan, who was anxious to lea… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: The sun had not long risen before the Sultan, who was anxious to leave nothing undone that might deliver the princess, arrived with a large suite at the gate of the monastery, and was received by the dervishes with profound respect. Who acts: sun, Sultan, dervishes. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/9/77/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/9/) / 77 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 77 The sun had not long risen before the Sultan, who was anxious to leave nothing undone that might deliver the princess, arrived with a large suite at the gate of the monastery, and was received by the dervishes with profound respect. **Who acts:** sun, Sultan, dervishes · **What happens:** rise, be, leave, deliver, arrive, receive · **To what, where:** Sultan, nothing, princess This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, Sultan, dervishes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:9:77 # text = The sun had not long risen before the Sultan, who was anxious to leave nothing undone that might deliver the princess, arrived with a large suite at the gate of the monastery, and was received by the dervishes with profound respect. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 6 risen rise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 before before ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 anxious anxious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 16 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 15 obj _ _ 17 undone undone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 19 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 deliver deliver VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 acl:relcl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 suite suite NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 monastery monastery NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 received receive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ _ 39 by by ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 dervishes dervish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 profound profound ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 respect respect NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rise** | past · perfect | the sun | | | the Sultan | | long *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before sultan=Location | | 2 | **is** | past | the Sultan | | | | | anxious *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **leave** | to-infinitive | the Sultan *not said here* | nothing | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | | 4 | **deliver** | might | | the princess | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | | 5 | **arrive** | past | the sun *not said here* | | | | | with a large suite at the gate of the monastery | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **receive** | past · passive | the dervishes with profound respect | | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/9/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/9/78/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/9/)