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description: He would gladly have avoided her altogether, but they were so near that he must either be prepared to fight or yield to her, so he at once addressed her in a conciliatory tone: Who acts: goodness. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23, with its dependency
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 18

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He would gladly have avoided her altogether, but they were so near that he must either be prepared to fight or yield to her, so he at once addressed her in a conciliatory tone:

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**Who acts:** goodness · **What happens:** avoid, be, fight, yield, address · **To what, where:** Maimoune, conciliatory tone

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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 (goodness), 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:pg128:23:18
# text = He would gladly have avoided her altogether, but they were so near that he must either be prepared to fight or yield to her, so he at once addressed her in a conciliatory tone:
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	avoided	avoid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	near	near	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc:preconj	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	prepared	prepared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	yield	yield	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	31	obl	_	_
31	addressed	address	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
32	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	conciliatory	conciliatory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **avoid** | would · perfect | goodness | Maimoune |  |  |  | altogether, gladly *property* | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent she=Location |
| 2 | **is** | must | goodness |  |  |  |  | prepared *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fight** | to-infinitive | goodness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **yield** | infinitive | goodness *not said here* |  | Maimoune |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to she=Pivot |
| 5 | **address** | past | goodness |  | Maimoune | a conciliatory tone |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination |

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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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