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title: "Go," I said to the steward, "take back this calf, take great care o… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Go," I said to the steward, "take back this calf, take great care of it, and bring me another in its place instantly." Who acts: steward, I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 108

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"Go," I said to the steward, "take back this calf, take great care of it, and bring me another in its place instantly."

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**Who acts:** steward, I · **What happens:** go, say, take back, take, bring, care · **To what, where:** steward, calf, great care, another, me, place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (steward, I), 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:pg128:2:108
# text = "Go," I said to the steward, "take back this calf, take great care of it, and bring me another in its place instantly."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	steward	steward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | imperative | the steward *= steward* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I |  | the steward |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to steward=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **take back** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | this calf |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument calf=Destination |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | great care of steward |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 5 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive | the steward *= steward* *not said here* | another | me | steward's place |  | instantly *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination another=Theme |
| 6 | **care** *in a quote* |  | steward |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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