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title: "I am grateful to you for your interest in me," said Prince Bahman,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "I am grateful to you for your interest in me," said Prince Bahman, "and for the advice you have given, though I cannot follow it. Who acts: Bahman, you, your. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 13

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"I am grateful to you for your interest in me," said Prince Bahman, "and for the advice you have given, though I cannot follow it.

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**Who acts:** Bahman, you, your · **What happens:** be, say, give, not follow, interest · **To what, where:** you, advice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bahman, 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:pg128:42:13
# text = "I am grateful to you for your interest in me," said Prince Bahman, "and for the advice you have given, though I cannot follow it.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:desc	_	_
16	Bahman	Bahman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Bahman  Prince *= bahman* |  | you |  |  | for your interest in me; grateful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Bahman  Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | for the advice | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for advice=Asset |
| 4 | **not** **follow** *in a quote* | can | Bahman  Prince *= bahman* | advice |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **interest** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  | in me | nom interest «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=obl |

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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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