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title: I certainly did not expect such a proposal as I am still so young, a… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I certainly did not expect such a proposal as I am still so young, and I confess that the idea of marrying is very distasteful to me. Who acts: I, idea. 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 82

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I certainly did not expect such a proposal as I am still so young, and I confess that the idea of marrying is very distasteful to me.

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**Who acts:** I, idea · **What happens:** not expect, be, confess · **To what, where:** proposal, me

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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 (I, idea), 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:pg128:22:82
# text = I certainly did not expect such a proposal as I am still so young, and I confess that the idea of marrying is very distasteful to me.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	expect	expect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	8	det:predet	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	proposal	proposal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	confess	confess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	marrying	marrying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	distasteful	distasteful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	ccomp	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **expect** | past · do-support | I | such proposal |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proposal=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  | still | young *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **confess** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | the idea of marrying |  | me |  |  | distasteful *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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