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title: Still there was no use in discussing the matter, and I had to accept… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Still there was no use in discussing the matter, and I had to accept his conditions or bewail to the end of my life the loss of immense wealth. Who acts: use, I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 48

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Still there was no use in discussing the matter, and I had to accept his conditions or bewail to the end of my life the loss of immense wealth.

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**Who acts:** use, I · **What happens:** be, discuss, have, accept, bewail, condition · **To what, where:** matter, conditions, loss

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (use, I), 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:pg128:33:48
# text = Still there was no use in discussing the matter, and I had to accept his conditions or bewail to the end of my life the loss of immense wealth.
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	discussing	discuss	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	bewail	bewail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | no use |  |  | there | still |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **discuss** *speech: other* | gerund | no use *not said here* | the matter |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **accept** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | use's conditions |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Theme |
| 5 | **bewail** | infinitive | I *not said here* | the loss of immense wealth |  |  | to the end of my life |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loss=Stimulus |
| 6 | **condition** |  | use |  |  |  |  |  | nom condition «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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