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title: "Madam," replied the pilgrim, "I should ill repay the hospitality yo… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Madam," replied the pilgrim, "I should ill repay the hospitality you have shown me if I refused to answer your question. Who acts: Madam, you, your. 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 57

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"Madam," replied the pilgrim, "I should ill repay the hospitality you have shown me if I refused to answer your question.

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**Who acts:** Madam, you, your · **What happens:** reply, repay, show, refuse, not answer, question · **To what, where:** pilgrim, hospitality, Madam, question · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Madam, you, your), 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:pg128:41:57
# text = "Madam," replied the pilgrim, "I should ill repay the hospitality you have shown me if I refused to answer your question.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Madam	madam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pilgrim	pilgrim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
13	repay	repay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Madam | the pilgrim |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pilgrim=Topic |
| 2 | **repay** *in a quote* | infinitive | Madam *not said here* | the hospitality |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hospitality=Recipient |
| 3 | **show** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | the hospitality *not said here* | Madam |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 4 | **refuse** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | Madam |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Madam *not said here* | your question |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality |
| 6 | **question** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom question «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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