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title: There she shall sit, in the coarsest clothes, and every Mussulman wh… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: There she shall sit, in the coarsest clothes, and every Mussulman who enters the mosque shall spit in her face in passing. Who acts: passion, Mussulman. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 18

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There she shall sit, in the coarsest clothes, and every Mussulman who enters the mosque shall spit in her face in passing.

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**Who acts:** passion, Mussulman · **What happens:** sit, enter, spit · **To what, where:** coarsest clothes, mosque, face

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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 (passion, Mussulman), 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:pg128:41:18
# text = There she shall sit, in the coarsest clothes, and every Mussulman who enters the mosque shall spit in her face in passing.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	coarsest	coarse	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	Mussulman	mussulman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	enters	enter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	mosque	mosque	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	spit	spit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	passing	passing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | shall | passion |  |  | the coarsest clothes; there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in clothes=Location |
| 2 | **enter** | present | every Mussulman | the mosque |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mosque=Destination |
| 3 | **spit** | shall | every Mussulman |  |  | passion's face |  | in passing | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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