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title: You do not appear to lack wit, yet you do such actions as none but m… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: You do not appear to lack wit, yet you do such actions as none but madmen could be capable of. Who acts: You, none. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 23

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You do not appear to lack wit, yet you do such actions as none but madmen could be capable of.

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**Who acts:** You, none · **What happens:** not appear, lack, do, be · **To what, where:** wit, such actions

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, none), 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:pg128:12:23
# text = You do not appear to lack wit, yet you do such actions as none but madmen could be capable of.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	lack	lack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	wit	wit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	actions	action	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	20	nsubj	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	madmen	madman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	capable	capable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **appear** | present · do-support | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **lack** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | wit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | present | you | such actions |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent action=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is** | could | none |  |  |  |  | capable *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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