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title: "Brave lady," answered the bird, "do not blame me for having joined… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Brave lady," answered the bird, "do not blame me for having joined my voice to those who did their best to preserve my freedom. Who acts: Brave lady. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 85

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"Brave lady," answered the bird, "do not blame me for having joined my voice to those who did their best to preserve my freedom.

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**Who acts:** Brave lady · **What happens:** answer, not blame, join, preserve · **To what, where:** bird, Brave lady, voice, freedom · **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 (Brave lady), 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:pg128:42:85
# text = "Brave lady," answered the bird, "do not blame me for having joined my voice to those who did their best to preserve my freedom.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	blame	blame	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	aux	_	_
17	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	obl	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
23	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	nmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	preserve	preserve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	csubj	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Brave lady |  | the bird |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bird=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **blame** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | Brave lady *not said here* | Brave lady *= lady* |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **join** *in a quote* | gerund · perfect | Brave lady *not said here* | my voice |  |  |  | to those | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent voice=Patient to that=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **preserve** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | my freedom |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Beneficiary |

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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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