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title: As usual he talked over his plans with his grand-vizir, who, though… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: As usual he talked over his plans with his grand-vizir, who, though he did not approve the idea, would not state all his objections. Who acts: usual, grand vizir, man. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 72

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As usual he talked over his plans with his grand-vizir, who, though he did not approve the idea, would not state all his objections.

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**Who acts:** usual, grand vizir, man · **What happens:** talk, not approve, not state, plan, object · **To what, where:** plans, idea, objections

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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 (usual, grand vizir, man), 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:pg128:22:72
# text = As usual he talked over his plans with his grand-vizir, who, though he did not approve the idea, would not state all his objections.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	approve	approve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	state	state	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	objections	objection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | past | usual |  |  | man's plans |  | with man's grand vizir | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with vizir=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **not** **approve** | past · do-support | man's grand vizir | the idea |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **not** **state** *speech: other* | would | usual *not said here* | man's objections |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent objection=Topic |
| 4 | **plan** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **object** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom objection «communication intransitive»: 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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