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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 47

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Addressing myself to the one who seemed most aggrieved, I said: "I am sure, if you knew all that I have suffered, you would show more kindness towards me, and as for diamonds, I have enough here of the very best for you and me and all your company."

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**Who acts:** I, one, you · **What happens:** address, seem, aggrieve, say, be, know · **To what, where:** myself, one, that, more kindness · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one, 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:pg128:14:47
# text = Addressing myself to the one who seemed most aggrieved, I said: "I am sure, if you knew all that I have suffered, you would show more kindness towards me, and as for diamonds, I have enough here of the very best for you and me and all your company."
1	Addressing	address	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
2	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	aggrieved	aggrieve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	parataxis	_	_
31	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	amod	_	_
32	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
37	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	39	case	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	fixed	_	_
39	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
41	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	parataxis	_	_
43	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	42	advmod	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	very	very	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	44	nsubj	_	_
49	for	for	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	48	obl	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	50	conj	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
54	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	56	det:predet	_	_
55	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **address** | gerund | I *not said here* | myself | the one |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Destination |
| 2 | **seem** | past | the one |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **aggrieve** | participle | the one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **suffer** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | that |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 8 | **show** *in a quote* | would | you | more kindness |  |  |  | towards me | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent kindness=Patient towards i=Recipient |
| 9 | **have** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  | here |  | as diamonds | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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