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title: Then Maimoune turning to the genie said: "Well, are you satisfied th… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Maimoune turning to the genie said: "Well, are you satisfied that my prince surpasses your princess? Who acts: Maimoune, you, prince. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 109

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Then Maimoune turning to the genie said: "Well, are you satisfied that my prince surpasses your princess?

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**Who acts:** Maimoune, you, prince · **What happens:** turn, say, be, surpass · **To what, where:** genie, princess · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maimoune, 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:pg128:23:109
# text = Then Maimoune turning to the genie said: "Well, are you satisfied that my prince surpasses your princess?
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	Maimoune	Maimoune	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	genie	genie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	satisfied	satisfy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	surpasses	surpass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | gerund | Maimoune *not said here* |  |  | the genie |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to genie=Trajectory |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Maimoune |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | satisfy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **surpass** *in a quote* | present | my prince | your princess |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot princess=Theme |

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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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