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title: Then, turning to his attendants who stood round, he said to them, "W… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, turning to his attendants who stood round, he said to them, "What reward shall I give to the man who has restored me my daughter?" Who acts: Sultan, attendants, man. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 89

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Then, turning to his attendants who stood round, he said to them, "What reward shall I give to the man who has restored me my daughter?"

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**Who acts:** Sultan, attendants, man · **What happens:** turn, stand, say, reward, give, restore · **To what, where:** attendants, man, Sultan · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Sultan, attendants, man), 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:pg128:9:89
# text = Then, turning to his attendants who stood round, he said to them, "What reward shall I give to the man who has restored me my daughter?"
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	round	round	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
18	reward	reward	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	restored	restore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | gerund | Sultan *not said here* |  |  | Sultan's attendants |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to attendant=Trajectory |
| 2 | **stand** | past | Sultan's attendants |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Sultan |  | attendants *= attendant* |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **reward** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **give** *in a quote* | shall | Sultan |  | the man |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient |
| 6 | **restore** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the man | Sultan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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