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title: I love peace," he said, "and shall deeply regret having to resort to… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I love peace," he said, "and shall deeply regret having to resort to harsh measures. Who acts: I, Ali. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 67

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I love peace," he said, "and shall deeply regret having to resort to harsh measures.

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**Who acts:** I, Ali · **What happens:** love, say, regret, have, resort · **To what, where:** peace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Ali), 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:pg128:36:67
# text = I love peace," he said, "and shall deeply regret having to resort to harsh measures.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	regret	regret	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
14	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	resort	resort	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	harsh	harsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	measures	measure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | present | I | peace |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Ali |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **regret** | shall | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | deeply *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **have** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **resort** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to harsh measures *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to measure=Result |

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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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