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title: We live in this castle together, in the way that you have seen, but… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: We live in this castle together, in the way that you have seen, but at the end of every year secret duties call us away for the space of forty days. Who acts: We, way, secret duties. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 60

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We live in this castle together, in the way that you have seen, but at the end of every year secret duties call us away for the space of forty days.

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**Who acts:** We, way, secret duties · **What happens:** live, see, call away · **To what, where:** castle, us, end

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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, way, secret duties), 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:pg128:12:60
# text = We live in this castle together, in the way that you have seen, but at the end of every year secret duties call us away for the space of forty days.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	duties	duty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
26	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | We |  |  | this castle |  | together *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location |
| 2 | **see** | present · perfect | the way |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **call away** *speech: assert* | present | secret duties | us |  |  | at the end of every year | for the space of forty days; away *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent we=Theme for space=Beneficiary |

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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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