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title: If I were the grand-vizir I would order you a hundred blows from a b… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: If I were the grand-vizir I would order you a hundred blows from a bullock whip, and would have you led round the town accompanied by a herald who should proclaim your crimes." Who acts: I, you, herald, your. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20, with it
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 81

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If I were the grand-vizir I would order you a hundred blows from a bullock whip, and would have you led round the town accompanied by a herald who should proclaim your crimes."

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**Who acts:** I, you, herald, your · **What happens:** be, order, have, lead, accompany, proclaim · **To what, where:** grand vizir, hundred blows, you, bullock whip, town, crimes

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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, you, herald, your), 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:pg128:20:81
# text = If I were the grand-vizir I would order you a hundred blows from a bullock whip, and would have you led round the town accompanied by a herald who should proclaim your crimes."
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	advcl	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	order	order	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	bullock	bullock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	whip	whip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	xcomp	_	_
25	round	round	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	herald	herald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
33	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	proclaim	proclaim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	crimes	crime	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | I | the grand vizir |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **order** | would | I | hundred blows | you | a bullock whip |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary blow=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | would | I *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lead** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  | the town |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent round town=Destination |
| 5 | **accompany** | participle |  | the town *not said here* |  |  |  | by a herald | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by herald=Destination |
| 6 | **proclaim** | should | a herald | your crimes |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crime=Theme |
| 7 | **incriminate** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom crime «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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