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title: "Commander of the Faithful," said the vizir, "if Scheih Ibrahim reco… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Commander of the Faithful," said the vizir, "if Scheih Ibrahim recognises you he will die of fright." Who acts: Commander, Scheih Ibrahim, Ibrahim. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 112

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"Commander of the Faithful," said the vizir, "if Scheih Ibrahim recognises you he will die of fright."

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**Who acts:** Commander, Scheih Ibrahim, Ibrahim · **What happens:** say, recognise, die · **To what, where:** vizir, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Commander, Scheih Ibrahim, Ibrahim), 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:pg128:29:112
# text = "Commander of the Faithful," said the vizir, "if Scheih Ibrahim recognises you he will die of fright."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Commander	Commander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	Scheih	Scheih	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Ibrahim	Ibrahim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	recognises	recognise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Commander of the Faithful | the vizir |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **recognise** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | Scheih Ibrahim | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **die** *in a quote* | future | Ibrahim |  |  |  |  | of fright | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of fright=Causer |

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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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