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title: But the poor lady was so much beloved at Court that not even the dre… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: But the poor lady was so much beloved at Court that not even the dread of sharing her fate could prevent the grand-vizir and the courtiers from throwing themselves at the Sultan's feet and imploring him not to inflict so cruel a punishment for what, after all, was not her fault. Who acts: dread, all
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 11

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But the poor lady was so much beloved at Court that not even the dread of sharing her fate could prevent the grand-vizir and the courtiers from throwing themselves at the Sultan's feet and imploring him not to inflict so cruel a punishment for what, after all, was not her fault.

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**Who acts:** dread, all · **What happens:** belov, share, prevent, throw, implore, not inflict · **To what, where:** poor lady, Court, fate, vizir, feet, prince

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dread, all), 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:pg128:41:11
# text = But the poor lady was so much beloved at Court that not even the dread of sharing her fate could prevent the grand-vizir and the courtiers from throwing themselves at the Sultan's feet and imploring him not to inflict so cruel a punishment for what, after all, was not her fault.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	beloved	belov	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	dread	dread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	sharing	share	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
29	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
31	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	30	obj	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	imploring	implore	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	conj	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	inflict	inflict	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
43	so	so	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
47	for	for	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	after	after	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	56	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
53	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	cop	_	_
54	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	56	advmod	_	_
55	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belov** | past · passive |  | the poor lady |  | Court |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **share** | gerund | the dread *not said here* | dread's fate |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **prevent** | could | the dread | Court |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **throw** | gerund | the dread *not said here* | vizir |  | the Sultan's feet |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme at foot=Destination |
| 5 | **implore** | gerund | the dread *not said here* | prince |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **not** **inflict** | to-infinitive | the dread *not said here* | a cruel punishment |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **is a** | past | all | dread's fault |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **fate** |  | dread |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event 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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