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title: But the prince angrily insisted on knowing who and where the lady wa… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: But the prince angrily insisted on knowing who and where the lady was, and was not to be persuaded by all the vizir's protestations to the contrary that the plot had not been one of his making. Who acts: lady, plot, vizir, prince. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Ope
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 10

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But the prince angrily insisted on knowing who and where the lady was, and was not to be persuaded by all the vizir's protestations to the contrary that the plot had not been one of his making.

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**Who acts:** lady, plot, vizir, prince · **What happens:** insist, know, be, not be, have, protest · **To what, where:** prince, contrary, one

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, plot, vizir, 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:pg128:24:10
# text = But the prince angrily insisted on knowing who and where the lady was, and was not to be persuaded by all the vizir's protestations to the contrary that the plot had not been one of his making.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	insisted	insist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	persuaded	persuade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	protestations	protestation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	contrary	contrary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	plot	plot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
35	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	cop	_	_
36	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	making	making	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **insist** *speech: other* | participle · passive |  | the prince |  |  |  | angrily *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **know** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer who=Stimulus |
| 3 | **be** | past | the lady |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | by the vizir's protestations; to the contrary; persuade *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | the plot | the contrary *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contrary=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **is a** | participle |  | one |  |  |  | of prince's making | tree rules |
| 7 | **protest** |  | the vizir |  |  |  |  |  | nom protestation «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **make** |  | prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom making «act intransitive»: poss=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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