--- title: Saouy was quite a different character, and repelled everyone with wh… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Saouy was quite a different character, and repelled everyone with whom he came in contact; he was always gloomy, and, in spite of his great riches, so miserly that he denied himself even the necessaries of life. Who acts: Saouy, different character, spite. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertain --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/27/92/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/27/) / 92 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 92 Saouy was quite a different character, and repelled everyone with whom he came in contact; he was always gloomy, and, in spite of his great riches, so miserly that he denied himself even the necessaries of life. **Who acts:** Saouy, different character, spite · **What happens:** be, repel, come, deny, spite · **To what, where:** different character, everyone, contact, Saouy, great riches 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 (Saouy, different character, spite), 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:pg128:27:92 # text = Saouy was quite a different character, and repelled everyone with whom he came in contact; he was always gloomy, and, in spite of his great riches, so miserly that he denied himself even the necessaries of life. 1 Saouy Saouy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 quite quite DET PDT PronType=Ind 6 det:predet _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 character character NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 repelled repel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 9 obj _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 obl _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 contact contact NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 21 advmod _ _ 21 gloomy gloomy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 spite spite NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 riches rich NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 miserly miserly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 denied deny VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 37 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 36 obj _ _ 38 even even ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 necessaries necessary NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Saouy | quite different character | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **repel** | past | quite different character *not said here* | everyone | | | | with quite different character | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus everyone=Experiencer | | 3 | **come** | past | Saouy | | | contact | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in contact=Location | | 4 | **is** | past | Saouy | | | | | always, gloomy *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | spite of spite's great riches | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **deny** | past | Saouy | Saouy | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme necessary=Eventuality | | 7 | **spite** | | | spite's great riches | | | | | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/27/91/) - next →: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/27/93/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/27/)