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title: Dinarzade had no particular gifts to distinguish her from other girl… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Dinarzade had no particular gifts to distinguish her from other girls, but her sister was clever and courageous in the highest degree. Who acts: Dinarzade, sister. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 57

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Dinarzade had no particular gifts to distinguish her from other girls, but her sister was clever and courageous in the highest degree.

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**Who acts:** Dinarzade, sister · **What happens:** have, distinguish, be · **To what, where:** particular gifts, Dinarzade, highest degree

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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 (Dinarzade, sister), 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:pg128:1:57
# text = Dinarzade had no particular gifts to distinguish her from other girls, but her sister was clever and courageous in the highest degree.
1	Dinarzade	Dinarzade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
4	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	courageous	courageous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
23	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Dinarzade | no particular gifts |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Patient |
| 2 | **distinguish** | to-infinitive | Dinarzade *not said here* | Dinarzade |  |  |  | from other girls | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent she=Theme from girl=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | Dinarzade's sister |  |  | the highest degree |  | clever *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | Dinarzade's sister *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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