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title: Approaching my brother with an angry countenance he exclaimed, "What… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Approaching my brother with an angry countenance he exclaimed, "What business have you here?" Who acts: business, door. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 25

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Approaching my brother with an angry countenance he exclaimed, "What business have you here?"

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**Who acts:** business, door · **What happens:** approach, exclaim, business, have · **To what, where:** brother, angry countenance · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (business, door), 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:pg128:21:25
# text = Approaching my brother with an angry countenance he exclaimed, "What business have you here?"
1	Approaching	approach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
13	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
16	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approach** | gerund | business *not said here* | my brother |  |  |  | with a angry countenance | vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent brother=Theme with countenance=Instrument |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | door | a angry countenance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent countenance=Topic |
| 3 | **business** *in a quote* |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | business |  |  | here |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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