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title: "Sire," he said, "it is not possible that you can doubt for an insta… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Sire," he said, "it is not possible that you can doubt for an instant what reply you should give to such an insolent bargain. Who acts: Sire, shout, you. 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 71

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"Sire," he said, "it is not possible that you can doubt for an instant what reply you should give to such an insolent bargain.

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**Who acts:** Sire, shout, you · **What happens:** say, not be, doubt, give · **To what, where:** insolent bargain · **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, shout, 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:pg128:37:71
# text = "Sire," he said, "it is not possible that you can doubt for an instant what reply you should give to such an insolent bargain.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sire	sire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	doubt	doubt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	obj	_	_
21	reply	reply	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	29	det:predet	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	insolent	insolent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Sire |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | shout |  |  |  |  | possible *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **doubt** *in a quote* | can | you |  |  |  |  | for a instant | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for instant=Attribute |
| 4 | **give** *in a quote* | should · present | you |  | such insolent bargain |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Theme to bargain=Recipient |

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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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