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title: "Accursed genius!" exclaimed the princess, "it is you by whom that t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Accursed genius!" exclaimed the princess, "it is you by whom that treaty was first broken." Who acts: princess, genius. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 74

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"Accursed genius!" exclaimed the princess, "it is you by whom that treaty was first broken."

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**Who acts:** princess, genius · **What happens:** accurs, exclaim, be, break · **To what, where:** you, 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 (princess, genius), 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:pg128:10:74
# text = "Accursed genius!" exclaimed the princess, "it is you by whom that treaty was first broken."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Accursed	accurs	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	genius	genius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	conj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	obl	_	_
16	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	treaty	treaty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	advmod	_	_
20	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accurs** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | the princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | genius | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **break** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | that treaty |  |  |  | first *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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