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title: "Sire," replied the Indian, "I never doubted that a sovereign so wis… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Sire," replied the Indian, "I never doubted that a sovereign so wise and accomplished as your Highness would do justice to my horse, when he once knew its power; and I even went so far as to think it probable that you might wish to possess it. Who acts: Sire, Highness, you. A sentence of «The Arabi
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 62

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"Sire," replied the Indian, "I never doubted that a sovereign so wise and accomplished as your Highness would do justice to my horse, when he once knew its power; and I even went so far as to think it probable that you might wish to possess it.

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**Who acts:** Sire, Highness, you · **What happens:** reply, not doubt, accomplish, do, know, go · **To what, where:** Indian, justice, power · **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 (Sire, Highness, 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:pg128:37:62
# text = "Sire," replied the Indian, "I never doubted that a sovereign so wise and accomplished as your Highness would do justice to my horse, when he once knew its power; and I even went so far as to think it probable that you might wish to possess it.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sire	sire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	doubted	doubt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	Highness	highness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
25	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	33	advmod	_	_
33	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
34	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	even	even	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
41	so	so	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	40	advmod	_	_
43	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	advcl	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	probable	probable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	xcomp	_	_
48	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
49	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	advcl	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	xcomp	_	_
54	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Sire | the Indian |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **doubt** *in a quote* | past | Sire |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **accomplish** *in a quote* | participle | Sire *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | would | your Highness | justice |  |  |  | to my horse | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent justice=Eventuality |
| 5 | **know** *in a quote* | past | Highness | sovereign's power |  |  |  | once *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer power=Stimulus |
| 6 | **go** *in a quote* | past | Sire |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Sire *not said here* | power |  |  |  | probable *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 8 | **wish** *in a quote* | might | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 9 | **possess** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | power |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |

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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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