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title: "Sidi-Nouman," returned the daughter, "say no more about the obligat… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Sidi-Nouman," returned the daughter, "say no more about the obligation you are under to us. Who acts: Sidi, you. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 73

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"Sidi-Nouman," returned the daughter, "say no more about the obligation you are under to us.

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**Who acts:** Sidi, you · **What happens:** return, say, be · **To what, where:** daughter, more · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sidi, you), 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:pg128:35:73
# text = "Sidi-Nouman," returned the daughter, "say no more about the obligation you are under to us.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sidi	Sidi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Nouman	Nouman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
13	no	no	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	obj	_	_
15	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	obligation	obligation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	under	under	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | Sidi and Nouman |  | the daughter |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | Sidi and Nouman *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | under us | 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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