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title: "This is only a simple country house, sire," she said, "suitable to… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "This is only a simple country house, sire," she said, "suitable to people like ourselves, who live a quiet life. Who acts: This, princess, people. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 5

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"This is only a simple country house, sire," she said, "suitable to people like ourselves, who live a quiet life.

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**Who acts:** This, princess, people · **What happens:** be, say, live · **To what, where:** simple country house, quiet life · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, princess, people), 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:pg128:44:5
# text = "This is only a simple country house, sire," she said, "suitable to people like ourselves, who live a quiet life.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	sire	sire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	suitable	suitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | This | a simple country house and sire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **live** *in a quote* | present | people like ourselves | a quiet life |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location |

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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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