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title: One day, when the dervish, who had now become Sultan, was making a r… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: One day, when the dervish, who had now become Sultan, was making a royal progress with his court, he perceived the envious man standing in the crowd. Who acts: dervish, One day, Sultan, envious man. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9, with its dependenc
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 94

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One day, when the dervish, who had now become Sultan, was making a royal progress with his court, he perceived the envious man standing in the crowd.

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**Who acts:** dervish, One day, Sultan, envious man · **What happens:** become, make, perceive, stand · **To what, where:** royal progress, envious man, crowd

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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 (dervish, One day, Sultan, envious 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:pg128:9:94
# text = One day, when the dervish, who had now become Sultan, was making a royal progress with his court, he perceived the envious man standing in the crowd.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dervish	dervish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	progress	progress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	envious	envious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past · perfect | the dervish |  |  |  | now |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | past · progressive | One day | a royal progress |  |  |  | with Sultan's court | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset progress=Product |
| 3 | **perceive** | past | Sultan | the envious man |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 4 | **stand** | gerund | the envious man *not said here* |  |  | the crowd |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in crowd=Location |

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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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