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title: There now remains for me to relate to you the story of my sixth brot… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: There now remains for me to relate to you the story of my sixth brother, whose name was Schacabac. Who acts: name, Schacabac. 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 86

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There now remains for me to relate to you the story of my sixth brother, whose name was Schacabac.

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**Who acts:** name, Schacabac · **What happens:** remain, relate, be, name · **To what, where:** story, you, Schacabac

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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 (name, Schacabac), 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:pg128:21:86
# text = There now remains for me to relate to you the story of my sixth brother, whose name was Schacabac.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	relate	relate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	sixth	sixth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	Schacabac	Schacabac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | present |  |  |  | there | now | for me | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **relate** | to-infinitive |  | the story of my sixth brother | you |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to you=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Schacabac's name | Schacabac |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **name** |  | Schacabac |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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