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title: "That, holy dervish," replied Prince Perviz, "was my elder brother,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "That, holy dervish," replied Prince Perviz, "was my elder brother, who is now dead, though how he died I cannot say." Who acts: That, elder brother, dervish, I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 53

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"That, holy dervish," replied Prince Perviz, "was my elder brother, who is now dead, though how he died I cannot say."

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**Who acts:** That, elder brother, dervish, I · **What happens:** reply, be, die, not say · **To what, where:** Perviz, elder brother · **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 (That, elder brother, dervish, I), 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:pg128:42:53
# text = "That, holy dervish," replied Prince Perviz, "was my elder brother, who is now dead, though how he died I cannot say."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	dervish	dervish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	csubj	_	_
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:desc	_	_
10	Perviz	Perviz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
21	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	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 | That | Perviz  Prince |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent perviz=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past |  | my elder brother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | my elder brother |  |  |  | now | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **die** *in a quote* | past | dervish |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | can | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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