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title: "Sire, I cannot find words in which to thank your Majesty for the gr… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Sire, I cannot find words in which to thank your Majesty for the great honour conferred on me. Who acts: Sire. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 51

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"Sire, I cannot find words in which to thank your Majesty for the great honour conferred on me.

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**Who acts:** Sire · **What happens:** not find, thank, confer · **To what, where:** words, Majesty, great honour

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sire), 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:pg128:27:51
# text = "Sire, I cannot find words in which to thank your Majesty for the great honour conferred on me.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sire	sire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	thank	thank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	Majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	conferred	confer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **find** *in a quote* | can | Sire | words |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Sire *not said here* | your Majesty |  | words |  | for the great honour | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent majesty=Theme for honour=Attribute |
| 3 | **confer** *in a quote* | participle |  | the great honour *not said here* |  |  |  | on Badoura's friend *= friend* | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on i=Topic |

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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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