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title: I gladly yield to her the precedence and title of Queen in recogniti… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I gladly yield to her the precedence and title of Queen in recognition of the debt of gratitude which I owe her." Who acts: I. 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 81

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I gladly yield to her the precedence and title of Queen in recognition of the debt of gratitude which I owe her."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** yield, owe, title, recognize · **To what, where:** precedence, princess, gratitude, Queen, recognition, debt

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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 (I), 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:pg128:27:81
# text = I gladly yield to her the precedence and title of Queen in recognition of the debt of gratitude which I owe her."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	yield	yield	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	precedence	precedence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	recognition	recognition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	owe	owe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yield** | present | I | the precedence and title of Queen in recognition of the debt of gratitude | princess |  |  | gladly *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent precedence=Theme to she=Goal |
| 2 | **owe** | present | I | gratitude | princess |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal which=Theme |
| 3 | **title** |  |  | Queen |  | recognition of the debt of gratitude |  |  | nom title «communication transitive»: of=patient in=place |
| 4 | **recognize** |  |  | the debt of gratitude |  |  |  |  | nom recognition «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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