--- title: Then rising, he answered: "Commander of the Faithful, I crave your p… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Then rising, he answered: "Commander of the Faithful, I crave your pardon humbly, for my persistence in beseeching your Highness to do an action which appears on the face of it to be without any meaning. Who acts: heart, persistence, action, your. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, persistence, action, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg128:2768`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg128:33:27 # text = Then rising, he answered: "Commander of the Faithful, I crave your pardon humbly, for my persistence in beseeching your Highness to do an action which appears on the face of it to be without any meaning. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 rising rise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 8 Commander Commander PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 vocative _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Faithful Faithful PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 crave crave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 pardon pardon NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 humbly humbly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 persistence persistence NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 22 in in SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 beseeching beseech VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 acl _ _ 24 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 Highness highness NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 28 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 action action NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 appears appear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nmod _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 38 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 cop _ _ 39 without without ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 41 det _ _ 41 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 xcomp _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rise** | gerund | heart *not said here* | | | | then | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | heart | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **crave** *in a quote* | present | heart | your pardon | | | | for my persistence; Commander of the Faithful *vocative*; humbly *property* | vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot pardon=Theme | | 4 | **beseech** *in a quote* | gerund | my persistence *not said here* | your Highness | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | my persistence *not said here* | a action | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent action=Eventuality | | 6 | **appear** *in a quote* | present | a action | | | the face of face | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on face=Location | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a action *not said here* | | | | | without any meaning | tree rules | | 8 | **pardon** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom pardon «act 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/33/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/33/28/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/33/)