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title: "Charming Maimoune," asked Danhasch, "may I inquire who and what is… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Charming Maimoune," asked Danhasch, "may I inquire who and what is the prince of whom you speak?" Who acts: Charming, Danhasch. 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 50

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"Charming Maimoune," asked Danhasch, "may I inquire who and what is the prince of whom you speak?"

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**Who acts:** Charming, Danhasch · **What happens:** ask, inquire, be, speak · **To what, where:** Danhasch, prince · **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 (Charming, Danhasch), 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:pg128:23:50
# text = "Charming Maimoune," asked Danhasch, "may I inquire who and what is the prince of whom you speak?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Charming	Charming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	Maimoune	Maimoune	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Danhasch	Danhasch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	inquire	inquire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nmod	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Charming |  | Danhasch |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent danhasch=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **inquire** *speech: other* *in a quote* | may | Charming |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent who=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | the prince |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | Danhasch |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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