---
title: "My lord," said his wife, "I am quite aware of Saouy's baseness, and… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "My lord," said his wife, "I am quite aware of Saouy's baseness, and that he is capable of playing you this malicious trick. Who acts: lord, Saouy. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/58/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/) / 58

# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 58

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
"My lord," said his wife, "I am quite aware of Saouy's baseness, and that he is capable of playing you this malicious trick.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** lord, Saouy · **What happens:** say, be, play · **To what, where:** wife, malicious trick, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (lord, Saouy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg128:28:58
# text = "My lord," said his wife, "I am quite aware of Saouy's baseness, and that he is capable of playing you this malicious trick.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	aware	aware	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	Saouy	Saouy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	baseness	baseness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	capable	capable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
25	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
29	malicious	malicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | My lord | lord's wife |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | My lord *= lord* |  |  |  |  | of Saouy's baseness; aware *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Saouy |  |  |  |  | capable *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **play** *in a quote* | gerund | Saouy *not said here* | this malicious trick | you |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary trick=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/57/)
- next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/59/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/)