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title: "Negligent vizir, look at the pavilion, and tell me why it is lit up… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Negligent vizir, look at the pavilion, and tell me why it is lit up when I am not there." Who acts: Negligent vizir, vizir. 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 95

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"Negligent vizir, look at the pavilion, and tell me why it is lit up when I am not there."

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**Who acts:** Negligent vizir, vizir · **What happens:** look, tell, lit up, not be · **To what, where:** vizir, pavilion · **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 (Negligent vizir, 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:pg128:29:95
# text = "Negligent vizir, look at the pavilion, and tell me why it is lit up when I am not there."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Negligent	negligent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pavilion	pavilion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | Negligent vizir |  |  |  |  | at the pavilion | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at pavilion=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | vizir |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 3 | **lit up** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | pavilion |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | vizir |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |

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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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