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title: In vain the Persian protested against the wrong he did himself; he c… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: In vain the Persian protested against the wrong he did himself; he continued to scatter with the same lavish hand. Who acts: vizir. 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 91

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In vain the Persian protested against the wrong he did himself; he continued to scatter with the same lavish hand.

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**Who acts:** vizir · **What happens:** protest, do, continue, scatter · **To what, where:** vain Persian, vizir

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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 (vizir), 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:pg128:28:91
# text = In vain the Persian protested against the wrong he did himself; he continued to scatter with the same lavish hand.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	protested	protest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	against	against	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	scatter	scatter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	lavish	lavish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **protest** *speech: disagree* | past |  |  |  | the vain Persian |  | against the wrong | vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent against wrong=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | past | vizir | vizir |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Eventuality |
| 3 | **continue** | past | vizir |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **scatter** | to-infinitive | vizir *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the same lavish hand | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with hand=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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