--- title: "My lord," she replied, "I am well aware of your love for me, which… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: "My lord," she replied, "I am well aware of your love for me, which is only equalled by mine for you, but a cruel necessity obliges us to seek the only remedy." Who acts: lord, cruel necessity, your. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29, with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/29/9/) [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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/29/) / 9 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 9 "My lord," she replied, "I am well aware of your love for me, which is only equalled by mine for you, but a cruel necessity obliges us to seek the only remedy." **Who acts:** lord, cruel necessity, your · **What happens:** reply, be, equall, oblige, seek, love · **To what, where:** us, only remedy · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (lord, cruel necessity, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:29:9 # text = "My lord," she replied, "I am well aware of your love for me, which is only equalled by mine for you, but a cruel necessity obliges us to seek the only remedy." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 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 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 13 aware aware ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 parataxis _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 22 only only ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 equalled equall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 mine my PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 cruel cruel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 necessity necessity NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 obliges oblige VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 34 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 remedy remedy NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | My lord | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | My lord *= lord* | | | | | of your love; for My lord *= lord*; aware, well *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **equall** *in a quote* | present · passive | My lord *= lord* | | | | | for you | tree rules | | 4 | **oblige** *in a quote* | present | a cruel necessity | us | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient | | 5 | **seek** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a cruel necessity *not said here* | the only remedy | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remedy=Theme | | 6 | **love** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/29/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/29/10/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/29/)