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title: He hesitated no longer, but said: "Good woman, return and tell your… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: He hesitated no longer, but said: "Good woman, return and tell your son that I wait for him with open arms." Who acts: Aladdin, Good woman. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 100

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He hesitated no longer, but said: "Good woman, return and tell your son that I wait for him with open arms."

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**Who acts:** Aladdin, Good woman · **What happens:** hesitate, say, return, tell, wait · **To what, where:** son, that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aladdin, Good woman), 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:pg128:31:100
# text = He hesitated no longer, but said: "Good woman, return and tell your son that I wait for him with open arms."
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hesitated	hesitate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	iobj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hesitate** | past | Aladdin |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Aladdin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **return** *in a quote* | infinitive | Good woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | Good woman *not said here* |  | your son |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent son=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **wait** *in a quote* | present | Aladdin | that |  |  |  | for Aladdin; with open arms | 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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