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title: Is it possible that you take me, my lord, for one of those miserable… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Is it possible that you take me, my lord, for one of those miserable creatures who force their way into houses to beg for alms? Who acts: meaning, you, miserable creatures. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 10

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Is it possible that you take me, my lord, for one of those miserable creatures who force their way into houses to beg for alms?

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**Who acts:** meaning, you, miserable creatures · **What happens:** be, take, force, beg · **To what, where:** me, way, houses

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meaning, you, miserable creatures), 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:pg128:21:10
# text = Is it possible that you take me, my lord, for one of those miserable creatures who force their way into houses to beg for alms?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	parataxis	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
16	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	force	force	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	beg	beg	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	alms	alm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | meaning |  |  |  |  | possible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | present | you |  | me |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |
| 3 | **force** | present | that miserable creatures | creatures's way |  | houses |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Recipient |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | to-infinitive | that miserable creatures *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for alms | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for alm=Topic |

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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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