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title: Since you have, perhaps, heard but confused accounts of my seven voy… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Since you have, perhaps, heard but confused accounts of my seven voyages, and the dangers and wonders that I have met with by sea and land, I will now give you a full and true account of them, which I think you will be well pleased to hear." Who acts: you, dangers, I, my. A sentence of «The Arabian 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 37

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Since you have, perhaps, heard but confused accounts of my seven voyages, and the dangers and wonders that I have met with by sea and land, I will now give you a full and true account of them, which I think you will be well pleased to hear."

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**Who acts:** you, dangers, I, my · **What happens:** have, hear, meet, give, think, be · **To what, where:** confused accounts, full account, you, seven voyages, accounts · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, dangers, I, my), 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:pg128:13:37
# text = Since you have, perhaps, heard but confused accounts of my seven voyages, and the dangers and wonders that I have met with by sea and land, I will now give you a full and true account of them, which I think you will be well pleased to hear."
1	Since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	confused	confused	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	accounts	account	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	voyages	voyage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	dangers	danger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	wonders	wonder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
34	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	iobj	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
37	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	conj	_	_
40	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	obj	_	_
45	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	parataxis	_	_
47	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
48	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
49	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	cop	_	_
50	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	51	advmod	_	_
51	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	ccomp	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hear** | past |  | confused accounts of my seven voyages |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer account=Stimulus |
| 3 | **meet** | present · perfect | the dangers and wonders |  |  |  |  | with sea and land | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with sea=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **give** | future | the dangers and wonders | a full account of accounts | you |  | now |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient account=Theme |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot which=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | future | you |  |  |  |  | pleased, well *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **hear** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **account** |  |  | my seven voyages |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 9 | **voyage** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 10 | **account** |  |  | accounts *= account* |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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