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title: The physician on his knees, and bound, said to the king: "At least l… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The physician on his knees, and bound, said to the king: "At least let me put my affairs in order, and leave my books to persons who will make good use of them. Who acts: physician, persons. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree a
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 88

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The physician on his knees, and bound, said to the king: "At least let me put my affairs in order, and leave my books to persons who will make good use of them.

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**Who acts:** physician, persons · **What happens:** say, let, put, leave, make, use · **To what, where:** king, physician, least, affairs, order, books · **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 (physician, persons), 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:pg128:4:88
# text = The physician on his knees, and bound, said to the king: "At least let me put my affairs in order, and leave my books to persons who will make good use of them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	physician	physician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	bound	bound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	At	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	obl	_	_
18	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | the physician on physician's knees and bound |  | the king |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the physician on physician's knees and bound *= physician* |  | least |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive | the physician on physician's knees and bound *= physician* *not said here* | my affairs |  | order |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent affair=Theme in order=Destination |
| 4 | **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | my books | persons |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent book=Theme to person=Recipient |
| 5 | **make** *in a quote* | future | persons | good use of persons |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product |
| 6 | **use** *in a quote* |  |  | persons *= person* |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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