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title: "Never mind my stories for the present," replied the barber, "but wi… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Never mind my stories for the present," replied the barber, "but will your Highness graciously be pleased to explain why this Jew, this Christian, and this Mussulman, as well as this dead body, are all here?" Who acts: you, barber, Highness, Jew. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 47

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"Never mind my stories for the present," replied the barber, "but will your Highness graciously be pleased to explain why this Jew, this Christian, and this Mussulman, as well as this dead body, are all here?"

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**Who acts:** you, barber, Highness, Jew · **What happens:** not mind, reply, be, explain · **To what, where:** stories · **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 (you, barber, Highness, Jew), 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:pg128:22:47
# text = "Never mind my stories for the present," replied the barber, "but will your Highness graciously be pleased to explain why this Jew, this Christian, and this Mussulman, as well as this dead body, are all here?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	mind	mind	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
11	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	barber	barber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	Highness	highness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	graciously	graciously	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
25	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	45	advmod	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	Jew	Jew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	Christian	Christian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	Mussulman	Mussulman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	41	cc	_	_
37	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	36	fixed	_	_
38	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	fixed	_	_
39	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	41	det	_	_
40	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
43	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
44	all	all	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **mind** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | my stories |  |  |  | for the present | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the barber |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | future | your Highness |  |  |  |  | graciously, pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **explain** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | your Highness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | this Jew and this Christian and this Mussulman as this dead body |  |  |  |  | all, here *property* | tree rules |

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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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