--- title: One day, when the grand-vizir was talking to his eldest daughter, wh… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: One day, when the grand-vizir was talking to his eldest daughter, who was his delight and pride, Scheherazade said to him, "Father, I have a favour to ask of you. Who acts: grand vizir, eldest daughter, Scheherazade, favour. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/1/59/) [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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/1/) / 59 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 59 One day, when the grand-vizir was talking to his eldest daughter, who was his delight and pride, Scheherazade said to him, "Father, I have a favour to ask of you. **Who acts:** grand vizir, eldest daughter, Scheherazade, favour · **What happens:** talk, be, say, have, ask · **To what, where:** delight, Vizir, favour · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (grand vizir, eldest daughter, Scheherazade, favour), 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:pg128:1:59 # text = One day, when the grand-vizir was talking to his eldest daughter, who was his delight and pride, Scheherazade said to him, "Father, I have a favour to ask of you. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 grand grand ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 vizir vizir NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 acl _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 eldest eld ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 14 amod _ _ 14 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 delight delight NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 pride pride NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 23 Scheherazade Scheherazade PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 Father Father PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 favour favour NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | past · progressive | the grand vizir | | | | | to Vizir's eldest daughter | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to daughter=Co-Agent | | 2 | **is a** | past | Vizir's eldest daughter | Vizir's delight and pride | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Scheherazade | | Vizir | | day | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | | 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Scheherazade | a favour | | | | Father *vocative* | tree rules | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a favour *not said here* | | | | | of Vizir | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of you=Recipient | 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 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/1/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/1/60/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/1/)