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title: "Oh, my lord," answered my brother, who beheld neither meat nor brea… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Oh, my lord," answered my brother, who beheld neither meat nor bread, "never have I tasted anything so delicious." Who acts: lord, brother. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 4

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"Oh, my lord," answered my brother, who beheld neither meat nor bread, "never have I tasted anything so delicious."

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**Who acts:** lord, brother · **What happens:** answer, behold, not have, taste · **To what, where:** brother, meat, anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lord, brother), 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:pg128:22:4
# text = "Oh, my lord," answered my brother, who beheld neither meat nor bread, "never have I tasted anything so delicious."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	15	cc:preconj	_	_
15	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	17	cc	_	_
17	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	tasted	taste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
24	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	obj	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | my lord |  | my brother |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent brother=Eventuality |
| 2 | **behold** | past | my brother | meat nor bread |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meat=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | present | my brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **taste** *in a quote* | past | my lord *= lord* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme anything=Attribute |

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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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