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title: It is bad enough for me to have slain a Mussulman without having it… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: It is bad enough for me to have slain a Mussulman without having it on my conscience that a Christian who is guiltless should suffer through my fault." Who acts: chief, Christian, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 96

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It is bad enough for me to have slain a Mussulman without having it on my conscience that a Christian who is guiltless should suffer through my fault."

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**Who acts:** chief, Christian, my · **What happens:** be, slay, have, suffer, fault · **To what, where:** me, chief, conscience, fault

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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 (chief, Christian, my), 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:pg128:19:96
# text = It is bad enough for me to have slain a Mussulman without having it on my conscience that a Christian who is guiltless should suffer through my fault."
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux	_	_
9	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Mussulman	mussulman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	conscience	conscience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Christian	Christian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	guiltless	guiltless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
26	through	through	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | chief |  |  |  |  | bad, enough *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **slay** | to-infinitive · perfect · passive |  | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | gerund |  | chief |  | my conscience |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | a Christian |  |  |  |  | guiltless *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **suffer** | should | a Christian | my conscience *not said here* |  | my fault |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer conscience=Stimulus |
| 6 | **fault** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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