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title: I remember well what a vizir said to King Sindbad, his master, to pr… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I remember well what a vizir said to King Sindbad, his master, to prevent him from putting the prince, his son, to death." Who acts: I, vizir. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 14

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I remember well what a vizir said to King Sindbad, his master, to prevent him from putting the prince, his son, to death."

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**Who acts:** I, vizir · **What happens:** remember, say, prevent, put · **To what, where:** King, prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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:pg128:4:14
# text = I remember well what a vizir said to King Sindbad, his master, to prevent him from putting the prince, his son, to death."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remember	remember	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a vizir |  | King and king's master |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to king=Recipient |
| 3 | **prevent** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | king |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | gerund | I *not said here* |  | the prince |  |  | to death; king's son *vocative* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent prince=Goal |

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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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