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title: "My lord, I know that a son could not act more basely towards his fa… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "My lord, I know that a son could not act more basely towards his father than Noureddin has done towards you, but after all will you now pardon him? Who acts: mother, son, you. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 67

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"My lord, I know that a son could not act more basely towards his father than Noureddin has done towards you, but after all will you now pardon him?

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**Who acts:** mother, son, you · **What happens:** know, not act, do, pardon · **To what, where:** lord · **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 (mother, son, you), 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:pg128:28:67
# text = "My lord, I know that a son could not act more basely towards his father than Noureddin has done towards you, but after all will you now pardon him?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	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	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	act	act	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	basely	basely	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
15	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
22	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
26	after	after	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
31	pardon	pardon	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** *in a quote* | present | mother | My lord |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **act** *in a quote* | could | a son |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | present · perfect | a son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | towards son's father than Noureddin; towards you; basely *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pardon** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  | now |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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