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title: "Fair Maimoune," continued Danhasch, "this is the present state of a… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Fair Maimoune," continued Danhasch, "this is the present state of affairs. Who acts: Fair Maimoune, this. 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 44

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"Fair Maimoune," continued Danhasch, "this is the present state of affairs.

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**Who acts:** Fair Maimoune, this · **What happens:** continue, be · **To what, where:** Danhasch, present state

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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 (Fair Maimoune, this), 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:pg128:23:44
# text = "Fair Maimoune," continued Danhasch, "this is the present state of affairs.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Maimoune	Maimoune	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Danhasch	Danhasch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | Fair Maimoune | Danhasch |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent danhasch=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this | the present state |  |  |  | of affairs | tree rules |

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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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