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title: "Sire," replied Prince Bahman, "it is our usual exercise, and one th… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Sire," replied Prince Bahman, "it is our usual exercise, and one that should be neglected by no man who expects to comply with the ancient customs of the kingdom and bear arms." Who acts: Sire, hunting, man. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43, with it
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 33

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"Sire," replied Prince Bahman, "it is our usual exercise, and one that should be neglected by no man who expects to comply with the ancient customs of the kingdom and bear arms."

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**Who acts:** Sire, hunting, man · **What happens:** reply, be, neglect, expect, comply · **To what, where:** Bahman, usual exercise, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sire, hunting, man), 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:pg128:43:33
# text = "Sire," replied Prince Bahman, "it is our usual exercise, and one that should be neglected by no man who expects to comply with the ancient customs of the kingdom and bear arms."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sire	sire	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	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:desc	_	_
7	Bahman	Bahman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	exercise	exercise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	neglected	neglect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	expects	expect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	comply	comply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	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 | Sire | Bahman  Prince |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bahman=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | hunting | our usual exercise |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **neglect** *in a quote* | should · passive | no man | one |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 4 | **expect** *in a quote* | present | no man |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **comply** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | no man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the ancient customs of the kingdom and bear arms | tree rules |

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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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