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title: "To-day is a public holiday, and the people of the town not only do… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "To-day is a public holiday, and the people of the town not only do not work themselves but forbid others to do so. Who acts: people. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 40

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"To-day is a public holiday, and the people of the town not only do not work themselves but forbid others to do so.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** be, not work, forbid, do · **To what, where:** public holiday, people, others

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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:pg128:26:40
# text = "To-day is a public holiday, and the people of the town not only do not work themselves but forbid others to do so.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	To	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
21	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	forbid	forbid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
24	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | a public holiday |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **work** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | the people of the town | people |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent themselves=Material |
| 3 | **forbid** *in a quote* | infinitive | the people of the town *not said here* | others |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the people of the town *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «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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