--- title: Schahriar, who had been listening to Scheherazade with pleasure, sai… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Schahriar, who had been listening to Scheherazade with pleasure, said to himself, "I will wait till to-morrow; I can always have her killed when I have heard the end of her story." Who acts: Schahriar. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Schahriar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:2:21 # text = Schahriar, who had been listening to Scheherazade with pleasure, said to himself, "I will wait till to-morrow; I can always have her killed when I have heard the end of her story." 1 Schahriar Schahriar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 aux _ _ 6 listening listen VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 acl _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Scheherazade Scheherazade PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 20 till till ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 28 advmod _ _ 28 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 parataxis _ _ 29 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 xcomp _ _ 31 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 34 advmod _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 30 advcl _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **listen** | past · perfect · progressive | Schahriar | | Scheherazade | | | with pleasure | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to scheherazade=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Schahriar | | Scheherazade | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **wait** *in a quote* | future | Schahriar | | | | till morrow | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **have** *in a quote* | can | Schahriar | | | | | always *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **kill** *in a quote* | participle | Schahriar *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **hear** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Schahriar | the end of Schahriar's story | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer end=Stimulus | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/2/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/2/22/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/2/)