--- title: "Sir," answered the Sultan, "I am sure you have a good reason for no… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: "Sir," answered the Sultan, "I am sure you have a good reason for not doing so, and having heard your cry of distress, I am come to offer you my help. Who acts: Sultan, you, good reason, distress. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, you, good reason, distress), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:5:80 # text = "Sir," answered the Sultan, "I am sure you have a good reason for not doing so, and having heard your cry of distress, I am come to offer you my help. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 for for SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 acl _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 having have AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 aux _ _ 25 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 parataxis _ _ 26 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 cry cry NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 distress distress NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 offer offer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 iobj _ _ 37 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the Sultan | | | | | Sir *vocative* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Sultan *= sultan* | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | you | a good reason | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | | 4 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | gerund | a good reason *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hear** *in a quote* | gerund · perfect | | your cry of distress | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus | | 6 | **come** *in a quote* | present | the Sultan *= sultan* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **offer** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Sultan *= sultan* *not said here* | my help | you | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal help=Theme | | 8 | **cry** *in a quote* | | distress | | | | | | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent | | 9 | **help** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/5/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/5/81/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/5/)