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title: "Is this," continued Zobeida, growing more angry every moment, "is t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Is this," continued Zobeida, growing more angry every moment, "is this the return you make for the hospitality I have shown you? Who acts: you, Madam. 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 18

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"Is this," continued Zobeida, growing more angry every moment, "is this the return you make for the hospitality I have shown you?

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**Who acts:** you, Madam · **What happens:** be, grow, make, show · **To what, where:** return, hospitality, you

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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 (you, Madam), 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:pg128:7:18
# text = "Is this," continued Zobeida, growing more angry every moment, "is this the return you make for the hospitality I have shown you?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	csubj	_	_
7	Zobeida	Zobeida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | continue *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | this return |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | present | you | this return *not said here* |  |  |  | for the hospitality | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent return=Product for hospitality=Asset |
| 5 | **show** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Madam | the hospitality *not said here* | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |

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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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