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title: "And you," retorted the lion, "have not feared to break our treaty t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "And you," retorted the lion, "have not feared to break our treaty that engaged solemnly we should never interfere with each other." Who acts: you, treaty, we. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 73

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"And you," retorted the lion, "have not feared to break our treaty that engaged solemnly we should never interfere with each other."

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**Who acts:** you, treaty, we · **What happens:** retort, not fear, break, engage, not interfere · **To what, where:** lion, treaty · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, treaty, we), 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:pg128:10:73
# text = "And you," retorted the lion, "have not feared to break our treaty that engaged solemnly we should never interfere with each other."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	retorted	retort	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	feared	fear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	treaty	treaty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	engaged	engage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	solemnly	solemnly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	interfere	interfere	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	parataxis	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	24	obl	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retort** *speech: other* | past | you | the lion |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lion=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **fear** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **break** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | our treaty |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer treaty=Patient |
| 4 | **engage** *in a quote* | past | our treaty |  |  |  |  | solemnly *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **interfere** *in a quote* | should | we |  |  |  |  | with each | 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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