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title: A gentleman who would be a squire now was a kind of king in Scotland… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: A gentleman who would be a squire now was a kind of king in Scotland in very old times, and the same in other places. Who acts: gentleman. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 17

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A gentleman who would be a squire now was a kind of king in Scotland in very old times, and the same in other places.

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**Who acts:** gentleman · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** squire, kind, other places

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman), 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:pg128:1:17
# text = A gentleman who would be a squire now was a kind of king in Scotland in very old times, and the same in other places.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	squire	squire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | would | a gentleman | a squire |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | a gentleman | a kind |  |  | time | of king in Scotland | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | a gentleman *not said here* |  |  | other places |  |  | 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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