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title: His mother, though knowing very well that he returned to the house e… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: His mother, though knowing very well that he returned to the house every evening, dare not ask her husband to pardon him. Who acts: mother, Saouy. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 65

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His mother, though knowing very well that he returned to the house every evening, dare not ask her husband to pardon him.

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**Who acts:** mother, Saouy · **What happens:** know, return, ask, pardon · **To what, where:** husband, Saouy

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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 (mother, Saouy), 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:pg128:28:65
# text = His mother, though knowing very well that he returned to the house every evening, dare not ask her husband to pardon him.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	dare	dare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
19	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	pardon	pardon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | gerund | Saouy's mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **return** | past | Saouy |  |  |  | evening | to the house *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | Saouy's mother |  | mother's husband |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **pardon** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Saouy's mother *not said here* | Saouy |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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