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title: He finished, and it was Zobeida's turn to speak: "Go wherever you pl… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: He finished, and it was Zobeida's turn to speak: "Go wherever you please," she said, addressing all three. " Who acts: He, it. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 1

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He finished, and it was Zobeida's turn to speak: "Go wherever you please," she said, addressing all three. "

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**Who acts:** He, it · **What happens:** finish, be, speak, go, say, address · **To what, where:** turn, three · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (He, it), 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:pg128:13:1
# text = He finished, and it was Zobeida's turn to speak: "Go wherever you please," she said, addressing all three. "
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	finished	finish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	Zobeida	Zobeida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
17	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	addressing	address	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past | He |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | past | it | Zobeida's turn |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | He *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **address** | gerund |  | all three |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Destination |

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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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