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title: Good dervish," she said politely, "will you allow me to rest by you… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Good dervish," she said politely, "will you allow me to rest by you for a few moments, and perhaps you will be so kind as to tell me if you have ever heard of a Talking Bird, a Singing Tree, and some Golden Water that are to be found somewhere near this?" Who acts: Good dervish, you. A sentence of «
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 64

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Good dervish," she said politely, "will you allow me to rest by you for a few moments, and perhaps you will be so kind as to tell me if you have ever heard of a Talking Bird, a Singing Tree, and some Golden Water that are to be found somewhere near this?"

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**Who acts:** Good dervish, you · **What happens:** say, allow, rest, be, tell, hear · **To what, where:** me, Golden Water, this · **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 (Good dervish, you), 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:pg128:42:64
# text = Good dervish," she said politely, "will you allow me to rest by you for a few moments, and perhaps you will be so kind as to tell me if you have ever heard of a Talking Bird, a Singing Tree, and some Golden Water that are to be found somewhere near this?"
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	dervish	dervish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	politely	politely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
33	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	iobj	_	_
34	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	38	advmod	_	_
38	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	Talking	Talking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	Singing	Singing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
49	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	51	det	_	_
50	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
52	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	56	nsubj:pass	_	_
53	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	56	aux:pass	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	56	mark	_	_
55	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	aux:pass	_	_
56	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	51	acl:relcl	_	_
57	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	56	advmod	_	_
58	near	near	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	51	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Good dervish |  |  |  |  | politely *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **allow** | future | you |  | me |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **rest** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | moment | by you | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by you=Location |
| 4 | **is** | future | you |  |  |  |  | kind, perhaps *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 6 | **hear** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | you |  |  |  | ever | of a Talking Bird and a Singing Tree | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of bird=Stimulus |
| 7 | **find** | present · passive | Good dervish *not said here* | some Golden Water |  | this |  | somewhere *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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