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title: Step on board and let him conduct thee; but if thou wouldest behold… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Step on board and let him conduct thee; but if thou wouldest behold thy kingdom again, see that thou takest not the name of Allah into thy mouth." Who acts: Step, figure, thou. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 37

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Step on board and let him conduct thee; but if thou wouldest behold thy kingdom again, see that thou takest not the name of Allah into thy mouth."

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**Who acts:** Step, figure, thou · **What happens:** let, conduct, behold, see, not name · **To what, where:** figure, thee, kingdom, that, mouth

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Step, figure, 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:pg128:11:37
# text = Step on board and let him conduct thee; but if thou wouldest behold thy kingdom again, see that thou takest not the name of Allah into thy mouth."
1	Step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	conduct	conduct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
13	wouldest	would	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	behold	behold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
15	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	obj	_	_
21	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nsubj	_	_
22	takest	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	parataxis	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Allah	Allah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | infinitive | Step on board | figure |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **conduct** | infinitive | figure *not said here* | thee |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 3 | **behold** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | thou | thy kingdom |  |  | again |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kingdom=Stimulus |
| 4 | **see** | infinitive | Step on board *not said here* | that |  | thy mouth |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **name** | present | thou |  |  |  |  | of Allah | 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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