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title: "Amina," I said, as quietly as possible, "you must have guessed the… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Amina," I said, as quietly as possible, "you must have guessed the surprise I felt, when the day after our marriage you declined to eat anything but a few morsels of rice, and altogether behaved in such a manner that most husbands would have been deeply wounded. Who acts: Amina, you, most husbands,
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 106

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"Amina," I said, as quietly as possible, "you must have guessed the surprise I felt, when the day after our marriage you declined to eat anything but a few morsels of rice, and altogether behaved in such a manner that most husbands would have been deeply wounded.

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**Who acts:** Amina, you, most husbands, our · **What happens:** say, guess, feel, decline, not eat, behave · **To what, where:** surprise, anything, manner · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Amina, you, most husbands, our), 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:pg128:34:106
# text = "Amina," I said, as quietly as possible, "you must have guessed the surprise I felt, when the day after our marriage you declined to eat anything but a few morsels of rice, and altogether behaved in such a manner that most husbands would have been deeply wounded.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Amina	Amina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux	_	_
17	guessed	guess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	after	after	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	declined	decline	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	32	obj	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	morsels	morsel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	behaved	behave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	47	det:predet	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
48	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
49	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	50	amod	_	_
50	husbands	husband	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	nsubj	_	_
51	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
52	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	aux	_	_
53	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	55	cop	_	_
54	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
55	wounded	wounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Amina |  |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **guess** *in a quote* | must · perfect | you | the surprise |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surprise=Theme |
| 3 | **feel** *in a quote* | past | Amina | the surprise *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surprise=Theme |
| 4 | **decline** *in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  | day |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **eat** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient |
| 6 | **behave** *in a quote* | participle | Amina *not said here* |  |  | such manner |  | altogether *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | would · perfect | most husbands |  |  |  |  | deeply, wounded *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **marry** *in a quote* |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom marriage «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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