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title: Therefore I desire that you will marry a rich and beautiful lady who… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore I desire that you will marry a rich and beautiful lady whom I will find for you, and think no more of your own country." Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 20

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Therefore I desire that you will marry a rich and beautiful lady whom I will find for you, and think no more of your own country."

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** desire, marry, find, think · **To what, where:** rich lady, more

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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:pg128:16:20
# text = Therefore I desire that you will marry a rich and beautiful lady whom I will find for you, and think no more of your own country."
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	desire	desire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
13	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	no	no	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **desire** | present | I |  |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **marry** | future | you | a rich lady |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Patient |
| 3 | **find** | future | I | a rich lady |  |  |  | for you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent whom=Theme for you=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | I *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot more=Theme |

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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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