--- title: "Madam," said the young man, addressing Zobeida, "if you wish to kno… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: "Madam," said the young man, addressing Zobeida, "if you wish to know how I lost my right eye, I shall have to tell you the story of my whole life." Who acts: Madam, you, Zobeida. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/8/29/) [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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/8/) / 29 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 29 "Madam," said the young man, addressing Zobeida, "if you wish to know how I lost my right eye, I shall have to tell you the story of my whole life." **Who acts:** Madam, you, Zobeida · **What happens:** say, address, wish, know, lose, have · **To what, where:** Zobeida, right eye, story, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Madam, you, Zobeida), 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:pg128:8:29 # text = "Madam," said the young man, addressing Zobeida, "if you wish to know how I lost my right eye, I shall have to tell you the story of my whole life." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Madam madam NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 addressing address VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 11 Zobeida Zobeida PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 if if SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 22 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 iobj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Madam | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **address** | gerund | Madam *not said here* | Zobeida | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **wish** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **know** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **lose** *in a quote* | past | Zobeida | my right eye | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Eventuality | | 6 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | Zobeida | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Zobeida *not said here* | the story of my whole life | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient story=Topic | 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 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/8/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/8/30/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/8/)