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title: "No," answered the fisherman, "if I trust myself to you I am afraid… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "No," answered the fisherman, "if I trust myself to you I am afraid you will treat me as a certain Greek king treated the physician Douban. Who acts: fisherman, you, certain Greek king. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 123

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"No," answered the fisherman, "if I trust myself to you I am afraid you will treat me as a certain Greek king treated the physician Douban.

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**Who acts:** fisherman, you, certain Greek king · **What happens:** answer, trust, be, treat · **To what, where:** fisherman, you, physician · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman, you, certain Greek king), 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:pg128:3:123
# text = "No," answered the fisherman, "if I trust myself to you I am afraid you will treat me as a certain Greek king treated the physician Douban.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	trust	trust	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
13	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	treat	treat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	physician	physician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	Douban	Douban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the fisherman |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **trust** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | the fisherman *= fisherman* | the fisherman *= fisherman* | you |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent myself=Theme to you=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the fisherman *= fisherman* |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **treat** *in a quote* | future | you | the fisherman *= fisherman* |  |  |  | as a certain Greek king | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent i=Theme as king=Attribute |
| 5 | **treat** *in a quote* | participle | a certain Greek king *not said here* | the physician |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent physician=Recipient |

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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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