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title: I should have taken you to be a just man, and yet for the sake of ob… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I should have taken you to be a just man, and yet for the sake of obtaining that which does not belong to you, you are ready to invent this horrible falsehood." Who acts: I, sake, you. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 74

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I should have taken you to be a just man, and yet for the sake of obtaining that which does not belong to you, you are ready to invent this horrible falsehood."

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**Who acts:** I, sake, you · **What happens:** take, be, obtain, not belong, invent · **To what, where:** you, man, horrible falsehood

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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 (I, sake, 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:pg128:13:74
# text = I should have taken you to be a just man, and yet for the sake of obtaining that which does not belong to you, you are ready to invent this horrible falsehood."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	obtaining	obtain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
21	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	belong	belong	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	invent	invent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
33	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	falsehood	falsehood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | should · perfect | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a man and the sake |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **obtain** | gerund | the sake *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **belong** | present · do-support |  |  | you |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **invent** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | this horrible falsehood |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent falsehood=Result |

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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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