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title: "After having conferred such benefits on you," said he, "I am loth i… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "After having conferred such benefits on you," said he, "I am loth indeed to work you such evil. Who acts: dervish. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 12

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"After having conferred such benefits on you," said he, "I am loth indeed to work you such evil.

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**Who acts:** dervish · **What happens:** have, confer, say, be, work · **To what, where:** conferred such benefits, you · **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 (dervish), 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:pg128:34:12
# text = "After having conferred such benefits on you," said he, "I am loth indeed to work you such evil.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	ccomp	_	_
4	conferred	confer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
5	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	benefits	benefit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	loth	loth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
18	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | gerund |  | conferred such benefits |  |  |  | on you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent benefit=Patient |
| 2 | **confer** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | dervish |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | dervish |  |  |  |  | indeed, loth *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **work** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | dervish *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | 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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