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title: I promise you that to-morrow twelvemonth, I shall be waiting under t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I promise you that to-morrow twelvemonth, I shall be waiting under these trees to give myself up to you." Who acts: 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 38

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I promise you that to-morrow twelvemonth, I shall be waiting under these trees to give myself up to you."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** promise, wait, give up · **To what, where:** you, morrow twelvemonth, trees, myself

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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 (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:pg128:2:38
# text = I promise you that to-morrow twelvemonth, I shall be waiting under these trees to give myself up to you."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	promise	promise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	twelvemonth	twelvemonth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
14	under	under	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
19	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	iobj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | I |  | you |  |  | to morrow twelvemonth *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent you=Theme to twelvemonth=Goal |
| 2 | **wait** | shall · progressive | I |  |  | this trees |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under tree=Location |
| 3 | **give up** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  | myself |  |  | to you | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent myself=Theme to you=Recipient |

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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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