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title: Commander of the Faithful, I will not trouble to describe my birth;… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Commander of the Faithful, I will not trouble to describe my birth; it is not of sufficient distinction to deserve your Highness' attention. Who acts: birth, Highness. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 61

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Commander of the Faithful, I will not trouble to describe my birth; it is not of sufficient distinction to deserve your Highness' attention.

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**Who acts:** birth, Highness · **What happens:** describe, not be, deserve, attend · **To what, where:** birth, attention

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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 (birth, Highness), 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:pg128:34:61
# text = Commander of the Faithful, I will not trouble to describe my birth; it is not of sufficient distinction to deserve your Highness' attention.
1	Commander	Commander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	describe	describe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	distinction	distinction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	deserve	deserve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	Highness	highness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | to-infinitive |  | my birth |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent birth=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | birth |  |  |  |  | of sufficient distinction | tree rules |
| 3 | **deserve** | to-infinitive |  | your Highness's attention |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **attend** |  | your Highness |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: 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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