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title: No establishment will be better ordered than mine, and I shall take… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: No establishment will be better ordered than mine, and I shall take care always to be dressed in a manner suitable to my position. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 57

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No establishment will be better ordered than mine, and I shall take care always to be dressed in a manner suitable to my position.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** order, take, dress · **To what, where:** establishment, care, manner

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. 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:pg128:20:57
# text = No establishment will be better ordered than mine, and I shall take care always to be dressed in a manner suitable to my position.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	establishment	establishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	ordered	order	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	suitable	suitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | future · passive |  | no establishment |  |  |  | than mine | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | shall | I | care |  |  |  | always *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 3 | **dress** | to-infinitive · passive | I *not said here* |  |  | a manner |  | suitable *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |

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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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