--- title: If your Highness will deign to consent, and to give the court and th… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: If your Highness will deign to consent, and to give the court and the people one of the most astonishing spectacles they have ever witnessed, command the horse to be brought into the big square outside the palace, and leave the rest to me. Who acts: Highness, court, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Highness, court, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:40:26 # text = If your Highness will deign to consent, and to give the court and the people one of the most astonishing spectacles they have ever witnessed, command the horse to be brought into the big square outside the palace, and leave the rest to me. 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 Highness highness NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 deign deign VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 consent consent VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 appos _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 21 advmod _ _ 21 astonishing astonish VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 amod _ _ 22 spectacles spectacle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 26 advmod _ _ 26 witnessed witness VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 command command VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl _ _ 34 into into ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 square square NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 outside outside ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 leave leave VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 46 to to ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **deign** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | your Highness | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **consent** | to-infinitive | your Highness *not said here* | | | | | | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **give** | to-infinitive | your Highness *not said here* | the court and the people | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Theme | | 4 | **astonish** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **witness** | present · perfect | court | the astonishing spectacles *not said here* | | | ever | | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spectacle=Beneficiary | | 6 | **command** | imperative | you *not said here* | the horse | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | | 7 | **bring** | to-infinitive · passive | you *not said here* | the horse *not said here* | | the big square outside the palace | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: into square=Destination | | 8 | **leave** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the rest | me | | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rest=Theme to i=Recipient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/40/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/40/27/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/40/)