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title: I shall never allow my wife to leave her rooms on any pretext whatev… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I shall never allow my wife to leave her rooms on any pretext whatever without my permission, and my visits to her will be marked by all the ceremony calculated to inspire respect. Who acts: I, wife, ceremony, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20, wi
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 56

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I shall never allow my wife to leave her rooms on any pretext whatever without my permission, and my visits to her will be marked by all the ceremony calculated to inspire respect.

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**Who acts:** I, wife, ceremony, my · **What happens:** not allow, leave, mark, calculate, inspire, permit · **To what, where:** wife, rooms, pretext, visits, ceremony, respect

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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 (I, wife, ceremony, 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:pg128:20:56
# text = I shall never allow my wife to leave her rooms on any pretext whatever without my permission, and my visits to her will be marked by all the ceremony calculated to inspire respect.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	pretext	pretext	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	appos	_	_
15	without	without	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	visits	visit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	30	det:predet	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	calculated	calculate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	inspire	inspire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **allow** | shall | I | my wife |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer wife=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **leave** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | my wife *not said here* | wife's rooms |  | any pretext |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent room=Theme on pretext=Location |
| 3 | **mark** | future · passive | all ceremony | my visits |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination |
| 4 | **calculate** | participle |  | all ceremony *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **inspire** | to-infinitive |  | respect |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus respect=Experiencer |
| 6 | **permit** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom permission «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **visit** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom visit «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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