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title: So great was the indignation against Saouy that if anyone had set th… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: So great was the indignation against Saouy that if anyone had set the example he would have been stoned on his way through the streets. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 75

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So great was the indignation against Saouy that if anyone had set the example he would have been stoned on his way through the streets.

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**What happens:** be, set, stone · **To what, where:** great indignation, anyone, Saouy, way

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg128:30:75
# text = So great was the indignation against Saouy that if anyone had set the example he would have been stoned on his way through the streets.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	indignation	indignation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	against	against	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Saouy	Saouy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	stoned	stone	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the great indignation |  |  |  | against Saouy | tree rules |
| 2 | **set** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme example=Destination |
| 3 | **stone** | would · perfect · passive |  | Saouy |  | Saouy's way through the streets |  |  | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |

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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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