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title: "It is for your own sake," replied one of the young men, "that we ha… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "It is for your own sake," replied one of the young men, "that we have not granted your request, and to preserve you from our unfortunate fate. Who acts: ceremony, own sake, your, our. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 27

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"It is for your own sake," replied one of the young men, "that we have not granted your request, and to preserve you from our unfortunate fate.

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**Who acts:** ceremony, own sake, your, our · **What happens:** be, reply, not grant, preserve, request, fate · **To what, where:** one, that, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (ceremony, own sake, your, our), 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:pg128:12:27
# text = "It is for your own sake," replied one of the young men, "that we have not granted your request, and to preserve you from our unfortunate fate.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	preserve	preserve	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | ceremony |  |  |  |  | for your own sake | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | your own sake | one of the young men |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **grant** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | that |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal request=Theme |
| 4 | **preserve** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  | you |  |  | from our unfortunate fate | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary from fate=Theme |
| 5 | **request** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **fate** *in a quote* |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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