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title: Most likely we shall never see you again, but if you have sufficient… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Most likely we shall never see you again, but if you have sufficient self-command perhaps we may yet look forward to a meeting." Who acts: we, you. 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 57

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Most likely we shall never see you again, but if you have sufficient self-command perhaps we may yet look forward to a meeting."

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**Who acts:** we, you · **What happens:** not see, have, look · **To what, where:** you, sufficient self command

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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 (we, you), 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:pg128:12:57
# text = Most likely we shall never see you again, but if you have sufficient self-command perhaps we may yet look forward to a meeting."
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	nsubj	_	_
2	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
14	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
23	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | shall | we | you |  |  | again | likely *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | sufficient self command |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Patient |
| 3 | **look** | may | we |  |  |  | yet | to a meeting; forward, perhaps *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to meeting=Theme |

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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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