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title: "Then the one who stands behind the throne answers: 'This king, so g… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Then the one who stands behind the throne answers: 'This king, so great and powerful, must die, must die, must die!'" Who acts: one, throne. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 31

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"Then the one who stands behind the throne answers: 'This king, so great and powerful, must die, must die, must die!'"

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**Who acts:** one, throne · **What happens:** stand behind, answer, die · **To what, where:** king, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, throne), 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:pg128:18:31
# text = "Then the one who stands behind the throne answers: 'This king, so great and powerful, must die, must die, must die!'"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	answers	answer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	die	die	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	die	die	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
27	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	die	die	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand behind** *in a quote* | present | the one |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | the throne |  | this king |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality |
| 3 | **die** *in a quote* | must |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **die** *in a quote* | must |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **die** *in a quote* | must |  | the one |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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