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title: Is there any other verdict possible?" he asked the grand-vizir, who… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Is there any other verdict possible?" he asked the grand-vizir, who was as much impressed as himself. " Who acts: game, grand vizir. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 15

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Is there any other verdict possible?" he asked the grand-vizir, who was as much impressed as himself. "

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**Who acts:** game, grand vizir · **What happens:** be, ask · **To what, where:** grand vizir · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (game, grand vizir), 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:pg128:37:15
# text = Is there any other verdict possible?" he asked the grand-vizir, who was as much impressed as himself. "
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	1	expl	_	_
3	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	verdict	verdict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	much	much	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	impressed	impressed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	acl:relcl	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | any other verdict *obl:unmarked*; possible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | past | game | the grand vizir |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent vizir=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the grand vizir |  |  |  |  | as game; impressed *property* | 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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