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title: I allowed myself to be persuaded, put on my richest dress, and took… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I allowed myself to be persuaded, put on my richest dress, and took a purse with a hundred pieces of gold. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 62

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I allowed myself to be persuaded, put on my richest dress, and took a purse with a hundred pieces of gold.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** allow, persuade, put, take · **To what, where:** myself, richest dress, purse

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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 (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:pg128:21:62
# text = I allowed myself to be persuaded, put on my richest dress, and took a purse with a hundred pieces of gold.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	allowed	allow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	iobj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	persuaded	persuade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	richest	rich	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	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 | **allow** | past | I |  | myself |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer myself=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **persuade** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **put** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  | my richest dress |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on dress=Destination |
| 4 | **take** | past | I *not said here* | a purse |  |  |  | with hundred pieces of gold | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=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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