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title: You doubtless imagine that I have acquired all the wealth and luxury… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: You doubtless imagine that I have acquired all the wealth and luxury that you see me enjoy without difficulty or danger, but this is far indeed from being the case. Who acts: You, I, luxury, this. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13, with its dependency
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 34

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You doubtless imagine that I have acquired all the wealth and luxury that you see me enjoy without difficulty or danger, but this is far indeed from being the case.

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**Who acts:** You, I, luxury, this · **What happens:** imagine, acquire, see, enjoy, be · **To what, where:** wealth, luxury, case

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, luxury, this), 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:pg128:13:34
# text = You doubtless imagine that I have acquired all the wealth and luxury that you see me enjoy without difficulty or danger, but this is far indeed from being the case.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	doubtless	doubtless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
3	imagine	imagine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	acquired	acquire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	luxury	luxury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	without	without	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
24	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
26	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
27	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	cop	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **acquire** | present · perfect | I | all wealth and luxury |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | present | you | luxury |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **enjoy** | infinitive | luxury *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without difficulty or danger | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | present | this |  |  | the case |  | indeed *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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