--- title: In answer to Camaralzaman's inquiries as to the reason for this, Mar… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: In answer to Camaralzaman's inquiries as to the reason for this, Marzavan replied that the only chance they had of continuing their journey was to divert attention by creating the idea of the prince's death. " Who acts: Marzavan, roads, only chance, Camaralzaman. 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" **Who acts:** Marzavan, roads, only chance, Camaralzaman, prince · **What happens:** reply, have, continue, be, create, inquire · **To what, where:** answer, only chance, journey, idea · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Marzavan, roads, only chance, Camaralzaman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:25:9 # text = In answer to Camaralzaman's inquiries as to the reason for this, Marzavan replied that the only chance they had of continuing their journey was to divert attention by creating the idea of the prince's death. " 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 Camaralzaman Camaralzaman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 inquiries inquiry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 14 Marzavan Marzavan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 of of SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 continuing continue VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 divert divert VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 29 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 by by SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 31 creating create VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 37 's 's PART POS _ 36 case _ _ 38 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Marzavan | | | answer to Camaralzaman's inquiries as the reason for this | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **have** | past | roads *= road* | the only chance *not said here* | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient | | 3 | **continue** | gerund | roads *= road* *not said here* | roads's journey | | | | | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | the only chance | | | | | divert *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **create** | gerund | the only chance *not said here* | the idea of the prince's death | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Result | | 6 | **inquire** | | Camaralzaman | | | | | as the reason for this | nom inquiry «cognition transitive»: poss=agent as=obl | | 7 | **journey** | | roads *= road* | | | | | | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **die** | | the prince | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/25/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/25/10/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/25/)