--- title: You must know, sire, that my father was Mahmoud, the king of this co… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: You must know, sire, that my father was Mahmoud, the king of this country, the Black Isles, so called from the four little mountains which were once islands, while the capital was the place where now the great lake lies. Who acts: You, father, four little mountains, capital. A sentence of «The Arabi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/5/86/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/5/) / 86 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 86 You must know, sire, that my father was Mahmoud, the king of this country, the Black Isles, so called from the four little mountains which were once islands, while the capital was the place where now the great lake lies. **Who acts:** You, father, four little mountains, capital · **What happens:** know, be, call · **To what, where:** sire, Mahmoud, four little mountains, islands, place · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, father, four little mountains, capital), 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:pg128:5:86 # text = You must know, sire, that my father was Mahmoud, the king of this country, the Black Isles, so called from the four little mountains which were once islands, while the capital was the place where now the great lake lies. 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 sire sire NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 8 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 Mahmoud Mahmoud PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 det _ _ 17 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 Black Black ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 Isles Isle PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 11 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 28 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 30 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 31 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 33 advmod _ _ 33 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 35 while while SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 xcomp _ _ 41 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 46 advmod _ _ 42 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 46 advmod _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 44 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 45 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | must | You | sire | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sire=Stimulus | | 2 | **is a** | past | my father | Mahmoud | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **call** | participle | | | | the four little mountains | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from mountain=Source | | 4 | **is a** | past | the four little mountains | islands | | | | once *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | past | the capital | the place and the great lake lies | | | | | tree rules | 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 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/5/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/5/87/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/5/)