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title: The Greek king was naturally very weak, and did not perceive the wic… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The Greek king was naturally very weak, and did not perceive the wicked intention of his vizir, nor was he firm enough to keep to his first resolution. Who acts: Greek king, king. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 69

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The Greek king was naturally very weak, and did not perceive the wicked intention of his vizir, nor was he firm enough to keep to his first resolution.

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**Who acts:** Greek king, king · **What happens:** be, not perceive, keep, intend, resolve · **To what, where:** wicked intention, vizir

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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 (Greek king, king), 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:pg128:4:69
# text = The Greek king was naturally very weak, and did not perceive the wicked intention of his vizir, nor was he firm enough to keep to his first resolution.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	perceive	perceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	intention	intention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	23	cc	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	firm	firm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
24	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	30	amod	_	_
30	resolution	resolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Greek king |  |  |  |  | naturally, weak *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **perceive** | past · do-support | the Greek king *not said here* | the wicked intention of king's vizir |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer intention=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | king |  |  |  |  | enough, firm *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to king's first resolution | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **intend** |  |  | king's vizir |  |  |  |  | nom intention «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **resolve** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom resolution «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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