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title: "Is it true, gentlemen," asked Zobeida, drawing herself up, "that yo… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Is it true, gentlemen," asked Zobeida, drawing herself up, "that you have charged this man to put me that question?" Who acts: mouthpiece. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 16

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"Is it true, gentlemen," asked Zobeida, drawing herself up, "that you have charged this man to put me that question?"

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**Who acts:** mouthpiece · **What happens:** be, ask, draw up, charge, put · **To what, where:** Zobeida, Madam, that, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mouthpiece), 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:pg128:7:16
# text = "Is it true, gentlemen," asked Zobeida, drawing herself up, "that you have charged this man to put me that question?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Zobeida	Zobeida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
13	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	charged	charge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | mouthpiece |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | Zobeida |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent zobeida=Recipient |
| 3 | **draw up** | gerund |  | Madam |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme |
| 4 | **charge** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | that |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Recipient man=Asset |
| 5 | **put** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent i=Asset question=Goal |

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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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