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title: He cannot possibly refuse again before so distinguished an assemblag… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: He cannot possibly refuse again before so distinguished an assemblage, and in our immediate presence." Who acts: prince. 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 93

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He cannot possibly refuse again before so distinguished an assemblage, and in our immediate presence."

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**Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** not refuse

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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 (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:pg128:22:93
# text = He cannot possibly refuse again before so distinguished an assemblage, and in our immediate presence."
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	refuse	refuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	assemblage	assemblage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	immediate	immediate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **refuse** | can | prince |  |  |  | again | possibly *property* | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=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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