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title: "Sir," was the answer, "for less than 10,000 gold pieces he will not… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Sir," was the answer, "for less than 10,000 gold pieces he will not let her go; he declares that, what with masters for her instruction, and for bodily exercises, not to speak of clothing and nourishment, he has already spent that sum upon her. Who acts: Sir, price. A sentence of «The Arabian Night
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 2

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"Sir," was the answer, "for less than 10,000 gold pieces he will not let her go; he declares that, what with masters for her instruction, and for bodily exercises, not to speak of clothing and nourishment, he has already spent that sum upon her.

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**Who acts:** Sir, price · **What happens:** be, not let, go, declare, not speak, spend · **To what, where:** answer, price, that, sum · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, price), 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:pg128:28:2
# text = "Sir," was the answer, "for less than 10,000 gold pieces he will not let her go; he declares that, what with masters for her instruction, and for bodily exercises, not to speak of clothing and nourishment, he has already spent that sum upon her.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	13	advmod	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	10,000	10000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	declares	declare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	masters	master	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	instruction	instruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	bodily	bodily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	exercises	exercise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	acl:relcl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	clothing	clothing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	nourishment	nourishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
48	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	already	already	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	parataxis	_	_
51	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	52	det	_	_
52	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
53	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *speech: assert* | past | Sir | the answer |  |  |  | for 10,000 gold pieces | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **let** *in a quote* | future | Sir | price |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | price *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **declare** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | Sir | that |  |  |  | for bodily exercises | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Theme what=Attribute |
| 5 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Sir *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of clothing and nourishment | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **spend** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Sir | that sum |  |  |  | upon price | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Asset |
| 7 | **instruct** *in a quote* |  | price |  |  |  |  |  | nom instruction «communication transitive»: poss=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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