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title: This, Commander of the Faithful, is my story, and may I venture to h… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: This, Commander of the Faithful, is my story, and may I venture to hope that, now you have heard the reason of my conduct, your Highness will not think this wicked woman too harshly treated? Who acts: Commander, I, you, Highness. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Open
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 97

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This, Commander of the Faithful, is my story, and may I venture to hope that, now you have heard the reason of my conduct, your Highness will not think this wicked woman too harshly treated?

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**Who acts:** Commander, I, you, Highness, my · **What happens:** be, venture, hope, hear, not think, treat · **To what, where:** story, that, reason, wicked woman

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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 (Commander, I, you, 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:pg128:35:97
# text = This, Commander of the Faithful, is my story, and may I venture to hope that, now you have heard the reason of my conduct, your Highness will not think this wicked woman too harshly treated?
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Commander	Commander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	venture	venture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	hope	hope	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	Highness	highness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
32	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
35	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
36	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	too	too	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	harshly	harshly	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Commander of the Faithful | my story |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **venture** | may | I | my story *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hope** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hear** | present · perfect | you | the reason of my conduct |  |  | now |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | future | your Highness | this wicked woman |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot woman=Theme |
| 6 | **treat** | participle | your Highness *not said here* |  |  |  |  | harshly *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **conduct** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom conduct «act 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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