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title: The time has now come; but before we depart, we will leave you our k… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The time has now come; but before we depart, we will leave you our keys, so that you may not lack entertainment during our absence. Who acts: we, you, our. 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 61

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The time has now come; but before we depart, we will leave you our keys, so that you may not lack entertainment during our absence.

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**Who acts:** we, you, our · **What happens:** come, depart, leave, not lack, absent · **To what, where:** you, entertainment

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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, 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:pg128:12:61
# text = The time has now come; but before we depart, we will leave you our keys, so that you may not lack entertainment during our absence.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
8	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	depart	depart	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	keys	key	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	24	mark	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	lack	lack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
25	entertainment	entertainment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	during	during	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present · perfect |  |  |  |  | now; time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **depart** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | future | we | you |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Theme key=Attribute |
| 4 | **not** **lack** | may | you | entertainment |  |  | during our absence |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **absent** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state 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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