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title: So Selim began to translate: ‘Thou who mayest find this, praise Alla… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So Selim began to translate: ‘Thou who mayest find this, praise Allah for his mercy. Who acts: Selim, Thou. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 29

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So Selim began to translate: ‘Thou who mayest find this, praise Allah for his mercy.

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**Who acts:** Selim, Thou · **What happens:** begin, translate, find, praise · **To what, where:** this, Allah

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Selim, Thou), 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:pg7277:7:29
# text = So Selim began to translate: ‘Thou who mayest find this, praise Allah for his mercy.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Selim	Selim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	translate	translate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	mayest	may	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
12	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	praise	praise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
15	Allah	Allah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Selim |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **translate** | to-infinitive | Selim *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **find** | may | Thou | this |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic |
| 4 | **praise** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* | Allah |  |  |  | for Selim's mercy | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent allah=Theme for mercy=Attribute |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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