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title: So I begged the one who owned the nest to which I had been carried t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: So I begged the one who owned the nest to which I had been carried to take as much as he would of my treasure, but he contented himself with one stone, and that by no means the largest, assuring me that with such a gem his fortune was made, and he need toil no more. Who acts: I, one, way, that. A se
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 51

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So I begged the one who owned the nest to which I had been carried to take as much as he would of my treasure, but he contented himself with one stone, and that by no means the largest, assuring me that with such a gem his fortune was made, and he need toil no more.

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**Who acts:** I, one, way, that, my · **What happens:** beg, own, carry, take, content, mean · **To what, where:** one, nest, I, much, way, largest

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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, way, that), 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:pg128:14:51
# text = So I begged the one who owned the nest to which I had been carried to take as much as he would of my treasure, but he contented himself with one stone, and that by no means the largest, assuring me that with such a gem his fortune was made, and he need toil no more.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	owned	own	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obj	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	contented	content	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	obj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	nsubj	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	36	nmod	_	_
39	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	assuring	assure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	advcl	_	_
44	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	49	det:predet	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	gem	gem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj:pass	_	_
52	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux:pass	_	_
53	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
58	toil	toil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	_
59	no	no	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
60	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	57	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | I | the one |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent one=Recipient |
| 2 | **own** | past | the one | the nest |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nest=Theme |
| 3 | **carry** | past · perfect · passive |  | I |  | the nest |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to which=Destination |
| 4 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | much |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme |
| 5 | **content** | past | way | way |  |  |  | with one stone | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer |
| 6 | **mean** | present | that | the largest |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent large=Topic |
| 7 | **assure** | gerund | that *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 8 | **make** | past · passive |  | way's fortune |  |  |  | with such gem | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 9 | **need** | present | way | toil |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot toil=Theme |
| 10 | **treasure** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession 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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