--- title: "My father," answered Scheherazade, "it is you who have to provide t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: "My father," answered Scheherazade, "it is you who have to provide the Sultan daily with a fresh wife, and I implore you, by all the affection you bear me, to allow the honour to fall upon me." Who acts: father, practice, Scheherazade, honour. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, practice, Scheherazade, honour), 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:pg128:1:65 # text = "My father," answered Scheherazade, "it is you who have to provide the Sultan daily with a fresh wife, and I implore you, by all the affection you bear me, to allow the honour to fall upon me." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 6 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 Scheherazade Scheherazade PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 provide provide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 daily daily ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 implore implore VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 by by ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 33 det:predet _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 affection affection NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 bear bear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 36 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 allow allow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ _ 44 upon upon ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | My father | | Scheherazade | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | practice | Scheherazade | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Scheherazade | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **provide** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Scheherazade *not said here* | | the Sultan | | | with a fresh wife; daily *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent sultan=Recipient with wife=Theme | | 5 | **implore** *in a quote* | present | My father *= father* | | Scheherazade | | | | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 6 | **bear** *in a quote* | present | Scheherazade | My father *= father* | | | | by all affection | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | | 7 | **allow** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Scheherazade *not said here* | the honour | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer honour=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 8 | **fall** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the honour *not said here* | | | | | upon My father *= father* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon i=Location | 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 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/1/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/1/66/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/1/)