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title: But kings do not like to have their offers refused, and in time he w… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: But kings do not like to have their offers refused, and in time he would bear a grudge against you, which would render me very unhappy. Who acts: kings, offers, Sultan. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 58

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But kings do not like to have their offers refused, and in time he would bear a grudge against you, which would render me very unhappy.

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**Who acts:** kings, offers, Sultan · **What happens:** not like, have, refuse, bear, render, offer · **To what, where:** grudge, me

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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 (kings, offers, Sultan), 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:pg128:43:58
# text = But kings do not like to have their offers refused, and in time he would bear a grudge against you, which would render me very unhappy.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	offers	offer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	grudge	grudge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	against	against	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	render	render	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **like** | present · do-support | kings |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | kings *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **refuse** | past | kings's offers |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bear** | would | Sultan | a grudge |  |  | time | against you | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grudge=Patient |
| 5 | **render** | would |  | me |  |  |  | unhappy *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 6 | **offer** |  | kings *= king* |  |  |  |  |  | nom offer «communication transitive»: poss=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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