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title: Really, one cannot deny that this is a very singular story, and it d… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Really, one cannot deny that this is a very singular story, and it deserves to be written in letters of gold." Who acts: one, this, story. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 17

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Really, one cannot deny that this is a very singular story, and it deserves to be written in letters of gold."

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**Who acts:** one, this, story · **What happens:** not deny, be, deserve, write, letter · **To what, where:** singular story, letters, gold

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, this, story), 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:pg128:20:17
# text = Really, one cannot deny that this is a very singular story, and it deserves to be written in letters of gold."
1	Really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	deny	deny	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	singular	singular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	deserves	deserve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	xcomp	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **deny** | can | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | this | a singular story |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **deserve** | present | story |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **write** | to-infinitive · passive | story *not said here* |  |  | letters of gold |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in letter=Destination |
| 5 | **letter** |  |  | gold |  |  |  |  | nom letter «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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