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title: "Does he want to take my son from me?" cried the poor woman; but the… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Does he want to take my son from me?" cried the poor woman; but the grand-vizir hastened to calm her, by assuring her that she should have the boy again in an hour, and she would be quite satisfied when she knew the reason of the summons. Who acts: game, poor woman, grand vizir, vizir. A sentence o
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 25

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"Does he want to take my son from me?" cried the poor woman; but the grand-vizir hastened to calm her, by assuring her that she should have the boy again in an hour, and she would be quite satisfied when she knew the reason of the summons.

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**Who acts:** game, poor woman, grand vizir, vizir · **What happens:** want, take, cry, hasten, calm, assure · **To what, where:** son, vizir, boy, reason · **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, poor woman, grand vizir, 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:pg128:37:25
# text = "Does he want to take my son from me?" cried the poor woman; but the grand-vizir hastened to calm her, by assuring her that she should have the boy again in an hour, and she would be quite satisfied when she knew the reason of the summons.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
13	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	calm	calm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	assuring	assure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	again	again	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
43	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
44	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
45	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	cop	_	_
46	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
48	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	50	advmod	_	_
49	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	advcl	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	summons	summon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** *in a quote* | present · do-support | game |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **take** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | game *not said here* | my son |  |  |  | from the poor woman *= woman* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent son=Theme from i=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the poor woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **hasten** | participle | the grand vizir |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **calm** | to-infinitive | the grand vizir *not said here* | vizir |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
| 6 | **assure** | gerund | the poor woman *not said here* |  | vizir |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 7 | **have** | should | vizir | the boy |  |  | again; hour |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient |
| 8 | **is** | would | vizir |  |  |  |  | satisfied *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **know** | past | vizir | the reason of the summons |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus |

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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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