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title: Why not wait another year and then inform the Prince in the midst of… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Why not wait another year and then inform the Prince in the midst of the assembled council that the good of the state demands his marriage? Who acts: you, prince. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 92

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Why not wait another year and then inform the Prince in the midst of the assembled council that the good of the state demands his marriage?

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**Who acts:** you, prince · **What happens:** not wait, inform, assemble, demand, marry · **To what, where:** Prince, marriage, midst

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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, prince), 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:pg128:22:92
# text = Why not wait another year and then inform the Prince in the midst of the assembled council that the good of the state demands his marriage?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	inform	inform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	acl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	demands	demand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **inform** *speech: other* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | the Prince |  | then |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient |
| 3 | **assemble** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **demand** *speech: request* | present |  | prince's marriage |  | the midst of the assembled council |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme marriage=Precondition |
| 5 | **marry** |  | prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom marriage «state transitive»: 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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