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title: Grant me the favour of allowing her to sleep this night in the same… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Grant me the favour of allowing her to sleep this night in the same room, as it is the last we shall be together." Who acts: you, favour, it, we. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 103

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Grant me the favour of allowing her to sleep this night in the same room, as it is the last we shall be together."

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**Who acts:** you, favour, it, we · **What happens:** grant, allow, sleep, be · **To what, where:** favour, me, Dinarzade, same room

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, favour, it, we), 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:pg128:1:103
# text = Grant me the favour of allowing her to sleep this night in the same room, as it is the last we shall be together."
1	Grant	grant	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	allowing	allow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
25	together	together	ADV	RB	_	21	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grant** | imperative | you *not said here* | the favour | me |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal favour=Theme |
| 2 | **allow** | gerund | the favour *not said here* |  | Dinarzade |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | the favour *not said here* |  |  | the same room | night |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location |
| 4 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | last *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | shall | we |  |  |  |  | together *property* | tree rules |

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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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