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title: What has he done that you should give him this pleasant life--what h… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: What has he done that you should give him this pleasant life--what have I done to deserve so hard a fate?" Who acts: Sindbad, you, I. 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 15

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What has he done that you should give him this pleasant life--what have I done to deserve so hard a fate?"

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**Who acts:** Sindbad, you, I · **What happens:** do, give, deserve · **To what, where:** pleasant life, Sindbad, fate

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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 (Sindbad, you, I), 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:pg128:13:15
# text = What has he done that you should give him this pleasant life--what have I done to deserve so hard a fate?"
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	obj	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	deserve	deserve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present · perfect | Sindbad |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 2 | **give** | should | you | this pleasant life | Sindbad |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient life=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | present · perfect | I | this pleasant life |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 4 | **deserve** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a fate |  |  |  | hard *property* | 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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