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title: "Worshipful sir," he began, "this Mussulman whom you desire to hang… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Worshipful sir," he began, "this Mussulman whom you desire to hang is unworthy of death; I alone am guilty. Who acts: hangman, you, something. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 101

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"Worshipful sir," he began, "this Mussulman whom you desire to hang is unworthy of death; I alone am guilty.

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**Who acts:** hangman, you, something · **What happens:** begin, desire, hang, be

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hangman, you, something), 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:pg128:19:101
# text = "Worshipful sir," he began, "this Mussulman whom you desire to hang is unworthy of death; I alone am guilty.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Worshipful	worshipful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sir	sir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	Mussulman	Mussulman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	desire	desire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	unworthy	unworthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | hangman |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **desire** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **hang** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | of death; unworthy *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | something |  |  |  |  | guilty *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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