--- title: Opening, part 22 — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · full text with trees · page 2 description: Opening, part 22, «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: "Excuse me, my lord," replied Schacabac, imitating his gestures as before, "I really am not losing time, and I do full justice to the repast." --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/22/page/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / Opening, part 22 # Opening, part 22 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/22/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/22/101/) — But what revolts me is the idea of marrying a woman without knowing anything at all about her. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/22/102/) — My father will ask the hand of the daughter of some neighbouring sovereign, who will give his consent to our union. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/22/103/) — Be she fair or frightful, clever or stupid, good or bad, I must marry her, and am left no choice in the matter. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/22/104/) — How am I to know that she will not be proud, passionate, contemptuous, and recklessly extravagant, or that her disposition will in any way suit mine?" [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/22/) **2** - ← previous: [Opening, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/21/) - next →: [Opening, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/23/) - ↑ back to [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/)