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title: "Prince, be not uneasy; hospitality and humanity are practised as wi… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Prince, be not uneasy; hospitality and humanity are practised as widely in Bengal as they are in Persia. Who acts: Prince, hospitality. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 14

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"Prince, be not uneasy; hospitality and humanity are practised as widely in Bengal as they are in Persia.

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**Who acts:** Prince, hospitality · **What happens:** not be, practise, be · **To what, where:** hospitality, Bengal

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, hospitality), 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:pg128:38:14
# text = "Prince, be not uneasy; hospitality and humanity are practised as widely in Bengal as they are in Persia.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	humanity	humanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	practised	practise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	widely	widely	ADV	RB	_	12	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Bengal	Bengal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Persia	Persia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | Prince |  |  |  |  | uneasy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **practise** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | hospitality and humanity |  | Bengal |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | hospitality |  |  |  |  | as Persia | 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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